Tuesday’s Tip – Linking to Parents (Beginner)

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• RIGHT click any child and then select VIEW and the DEselect SHOW 1/2 KIDS.

• A mother has been married 3 times yet all her children show up under each father. Can I have it so only the children of that particular father show up? When you right click on ‘childrens list’ you then see the children fathered by that particular man. In one case when the mother listed with husband # 2, 4 of the children listed (as 1/2 siblings) were born after father #2 had passed away and were fathered by father # 3. Hope I’ve made the question clear enough.
  Joe

• You can add a placeholder child to the grandparents that will act as the parent for the grandchildren. You can just leave their given name blank. It is possible that you already have this child linked to the grandparents. If you figure that out later you can just merge the child into the existing one.

• How do I link a child to grandparents when I don’t know who the parents are? Relationship to grandparents comes in Scottish 1841 and 1851 censuses.

• There are a couple of things you can do to look for problems. The first is “ghost” marriages. Here is more information.
  http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2017/11/tuesdays-tip-ghost-marriages-advanced.html
  You can also go to Search > Find and click the Misc. Tab. I would search for everyone that has “multiple parents.” The average file only has a couple legitimate multiple parents situations.

• How do I know if I have linked children and parents incorrectly in the past? Is there a way to check?

• Michele, this is sooo helpful! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve linked a child to the wrong parents (especially when one has married 2 or 3 times), or linked them twice, or whatever. Now I can do it easily. Thanks!!

• If you know the birth surname of the siblings you would simply add their surname as a placeholder for their father
  Jones
  If these are sisters and you don’t know their birth surname I use a place holder of [—?—] for their father. Their birth surname will also be [—?—]. Their married surnames will be AKAs.

• How do I link to siblings where parents are unknown?

• Deborah and Roger,
  I will do an article on how to link to two sets of parents. Next week’s Tip is on how to link to a single parent so it will be the week after that 🙂

• My great-father’s biological father is not the person to whom his mother was married when he was born. How do I handle that?

• A good tip would also be how to link a child to both his birth parents and to a step-parent.

• Tune in next Tuesday! I do a step-by-step with screenshots on how to link to a single person 🙂

• So what’s the correct way to link a child to parents where, in the case of an illegitimate child, you first know the mother and then at some later date discover the father?