**** spouse not showing up on my tree

gregor99

I've added my **** spouse to the "details" under my name. However, my spouse does not appear in my family tree.

How do I correct this?

Wayland K Adams

Hi Greg When looking at a tree, I will use the landscape view for example) it is geared to show one line for each person. But if you look closely, you will see an icon indicating that there are either multiple spouses or multiple parents. You simply click on the icon to display the desired spouse or parents. Setting the preferred just determines which spouse will be shown by default. I have circled the icon in the screenshot. You will see that icon on your own tree. Just click the icon and show the desire spouse and associated genealogy. Hope this helps.

Wayland K Adams

Hi Greg There are a couple of possibilities. If you have more than one spouse, there is the option to set the preferred spouse. The preferred spouse will be the one that shows on your tree. To set, go to the details tab of your page, and under Family Members select set preferred. The other thing is to make sure there is a couple relationship. Hope this helps.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

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Áine Ní Donnghaile

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gregor99

Thanks to Wayland Adams for the information.

This "preferred spouse" scenario is extremely odd and totally unsatisfactory. It's also misleading from a genealogical perspective.

I had a son with a woman when I was 20 years old. That son has 2 daughters (granddaughters to me). I want these people on my family tree for genealogical purposes in the future.

I am legally married to another male who I have been "with" for 54 years and legally married to for 19 years in Canada. I want that marriage on my family tree also for genealogical purposes.

But it seems that I can't list both the woman and the male as spouses and have them both show up on my family tree.

How does this work if a man had children with a wife who died and then he married another woman and had more children? He would want both wives and ALL of his children shown on his family tree. But it seems he would have to "prefer" one????

This makes no sense at all.

gregor99

Thanks again, Wayland. I appreciate your input.

Wayland K Adams

you are most welcome

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@gregor99, all spouses are shown in contexts where there's room, such as a profile's Details page. The "preferred" setting only applies in contexts where there isn't room, such as the chart views. The information and relationships are all there, and have equal "weight" or "value", but when only one spouse or set of parents can be shown, you can tell the system which one you prefer for it to pick. Note that this choice applies only to you: for someone who has never looked at a particular family before, I believe the system defaults to showing the most-recently-edited relationship.