Preferred Spouse
When an ancestor has more than one spouse and the wrong one is showing on the pedigree, how do I get the preferred spouse to show? I have clicked on "preferred spouse" but it does not change the name on the pedigree
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Are you using the new pedigree or the old? I do not see this issue on either.
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are the people in question deceased?? if so can you share the ID for this person with multiple spouses?
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Consider the following possible scenario:
In the TREE VIEW you will indeed see the selected PREFERRED:
You can select the other relationship options by clicking the chevrons/down arrows at right of the parent names. You can only SET PREFERRED if there exists multiple parent relationships for a person (For example if a person were biologically the child of parents 1 and 2 but parent 2 remarried and thus there existed a STEP relationship. You could set the one you prefer to display in the TREE VIEW of that individual child).
@ThompsonPaulaAnn1 Can you give the deceased person ID that is not displaying the spouse properly please?
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The screenshots provided by Genethusiast are great.
However, it’s important to understand that a child can have a preferred parent who is not a preferred spouse for his other preferred parent.
So the if you are viewing the pedigree of the child or his descendants—the child’s preferred parent selection overrides the preferred spouse designation of his parent.
The preferred spouse will show for the primary person in the pedigree views
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@Miss Jessie The "preferred" selection has nothing to do with who loves who. It is which lineage do you want to see in the pedigree right now. You switch it as often as you need. So when the child is looking at the pedigree and the wrong parent shows up, change it. When the researcher wants to see the other lineage because that is where he/she is working, change it again.
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@Gail Swihart Watson I believe it's a per account settings - so you can set it and forget it - unless someone moves your cheese.
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@genthusiast I have an adopted relative whose birth lines I work on. Of course the adoptive parents are there too. I do switch the preferred setting as needed because birth mom and birth dad did not marry each other but married other people. They each (and their spouse) are preferred intermittently.
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I agree that each person can have multiple parent-child relationships and multiple spouse or partner relationships.
Each user can select which relationship they want to see in pedigree views & change the preferred parents or spouses as often as they wish.
However, for the pedigree view, the selected preferred parents overrides a different preferred spouse for any parent in the pedigree.
The only exception is the root person on the pedigree—it is that person’s preferred spouse who shows in the pedigree view.
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