Add Brother or Sister
History books often tell us that x is the brother or sister of y but rarely tell us any other linage. To be able to add these in the tree, rather than just sticking them in "other" might help someone else down the line.
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Not 100% sure what you mean, but if this is referring to connecting siblings with unknown parents the solution is quite straightforward. Create a parent with the same surname and attach all known siblings to "him". Or, it could be "her", if you suspect the siblings to be illegitimate.
As an example, you have a John Brown who has a known sister Elizabeth Brown. Create an "Unconnected Person" (by going to "Recents") and call him / her just "Brown" (last name). Then create / add profiles for John & Elizabeth and use "Add Child" to attach them to the (unknown) parent.
Not a perfect solution, but at least it is a way of creating a relationship (on Family Tree) between two (or more) known siblings. Further, it will connect further generations to a relationship with their ancestor's siblings (1st cousin, 2nd cousin once removed, etc., etc.).
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To illustrate Paul's explanation - I know, from several other records that my 2nd GGF Thomas had a brother John and a sister Margaret. There are no surviving records from County Mayo with the name of their father. But, I have the family connected by a "Holleran" father for the 3 siblings:
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FamilySearch's Family Tree -- like every other family tree program I've ever encountered -- only has two types of family relationships: spouse and parent/child. Therefore, to enter a sibling, you have to enter a parent that those siblings share. This is one of the few situations where creating a profile for an essentially-unknown person becomes necessary. Luckily, FS allows for it: you're only required to fill out one name field. If the known siblings share a surname, then one makes a guess that the shared parent was male and bore that same surname.
Yes, there's a chance that the surname came from their mother, not their father, but the probability is low, so it makes sense for the placeholder to be entered as male.
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