Bug 21 Missing Fan Blade

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Woody Brison said: For 2DXL-ZVN (Grampa Charlie) I found a death certificate, and it gives the names of Mom and Dad. With those I created GWXF-17B (Grampa Tom) and GWXN-7SJ (Gramma Sarah). I didn't connect them as spouses but only as father and mother for Charles because that's all the death cert actually indicates. With them entered in, FamilySeach may find documentation for that.

Now, I look at the pedigree as a fan chart. Out from Grampa Charlie we see Grampa Tom, but where's Gramma? I'm drawin' a blank here.

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Woody Brison said: The bug extends to the Landscape and Portrait pedigree formats also.

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Jeff Wiseman said: Woody,

Unfortunately, this is an intended design feature of the system (i.e., it not a bug). If there is no known couple relationship between Sarah Cease and Thos. Lamoreux, the Charles will have potentially 4 or more lines going back through that part of the chart. For that reason FS will only show one of Charles' "parent couples" at a time.

You switch between which parent couple that you want to show by setting one as "preferred" on the Family section of Charles' family details:



It is a little more convenient on the landscape pedigree chart as you can change the parent couple on the fly by clicking on the ">" symbol and picking the parent couple that you want to display:



The fan chart is a little more clumsy in handling these situations.

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Woody Brison said: But there's only two peeps there, so why suppress one? Is there a risk that 1+1>2?

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Tom Huber said: They must be expressed as a couple, not individually.

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Juli said: If they definitely weren't a couple, but the fan chart put them both in, people would be complaining that it makes them look like they're married. There simply isn't a single solution that works in all cases. I think FS has made a decent choice. (If there were some sort of indication in the empty fan blade that there is a person there, with a means of switching the display, that'd be even better, but I'm sure it's complicated.)

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Jeff Wiseman said:

Is there a risk that 1+1>2?

In a rather literal sense, yes.

1 father + 1 mother can result in more than 2 parents if either of them married other people.

The 2 person boxes there are a related pair known as a couple relationship. If the parents had no couple relationship, they would not be shown in a "couple relationship box" together.

When you start looking at all the step parents, adoptions, single parents, etc., a child can have more than 2 parents. The charts must be able to deal with all of them.