Correcting child/parent relationships
Scenario: A child is in a relationship with both parents AND in a second relationship with just one parent.
Instead of having to remove the relationship with just the one parent, it would be nice to be able to add the second parent to the single parent relationship. It's what most people try to do anyway.
Example - Both these relationships exist:
- Husband A & Wife A have child A
- Husband A has child A
As it is right now, you would have to remove the relationship in line 2 to make things right, but most people would just try to add Wife A to the line 2 relationship. Is there any way to make it so this will work? I help at a Family Search Center and this is a problem that comes up quite often.
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? I'm not sure I follow...
If husband A and wife A have child A -
Then what is the need to create another duplicate parent relation with husband A and child A? (They already have that parent-child relationship). If you mean that husband A or wife A remarries someone else - then you could have a step-relationship - in addition to the biological one. Or if an old/other tree profile has a different PID for husband A with relation to same PID child A - then as long as both husband A match - you could merge those two and that should resolve it.
I guess I need more information to try to understand the issue better.
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This is actually a quite common scenario.
Action:
Keep the good relationship - (the one with both parents)
and simply remove the child from the 2nd relationship (of just the father and child)
(removing the child from the 2nd relationship - will have no impact on the 1st relationship)
(even though both relationships have the same father and child)
on the edit icon for the child of the second relationship - click on it and there will be an option to remove child. Once you do that - in most cases - the 2nd relationship will disappear all together and all that will be left is the good relationship with child and BOTH parents.
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The problem with the suggested course of action is that, so far as I can see, it's not obvious to someone who doesn't have that detailed knowledge. Something's there that's half right - do you delete it or complete the data to make it wholly right? Deleting is a risky business, especially if you don't have lots of experience of reversing deletions when you got it wrong. So that concern pushes, I believe, people to the "complete the data to make it wholly right" method. And "complete the data to make it wholly right" is probably a more positive and therefore more attractive thing to do.
Given this psychological scenario, I suggest something should be done to guide people towards the right end-result - either make the "complete the data to make it wholly right" idea work, or prompt people at some point towards the deleting method.
This is less a technical issue than a User Interface workflow issue.
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Although it is annoying, I think this annoyance is fine as it is. Leave it so that contributors learn by trial and error to remove spurious relationships without fear.
I fixed several of these families just today. In one family several children were duplicated. Adding the missing parent to the solo parent solved the problem for the duplicated children but the other children had to be detached one by one from their solo parent.
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