How to fix a spouse shown as a parent?
My great grandfather - Richard Ensign Sage - is shown here as the son of William Henry Sage and Mary Manie V. Laibe. Manie was actually his first wife. William Henry was Manie's father-in-law, not her husband. Richard's son Roy was the child of Manie, and the other three children, Florence, Alberta, and Lewis, were with Minnie Johnson. How can all this be fixed?
Richard Ensign should be shown as the child of William Henry Sage and Sarah Jane Gaye:
So, he needs his mother corrected, and the woman shown as his mother needs to be shown as his first wife. I have no idea how to make that happen.
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@Bonnie6262 The system only shows one spouse at a time, but when a person has multiple spouses, you can choose which one is shown. Just click on the multiple spouses icon (circled in red) and choose which spouse you want to show. When you choose a different spouse, then the children for that spouse will be shown. Note that doing this will change your preferred spouse for that person, so when you show the tree for the person, that spouse will always be shown (until you change it again).
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Cleaned up the confusion using above and findagrave
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Looks like the problem has been fixed - the correct parents are now shown, and the first wife is now linked with the correct child.
Here's another question, though. When I search on Richard Ensign Sage L5R5-D24, the family tree that comes up shows only his first wife and their son. If I search on his second wife, Minnie May Johnson L76D-Y9H, her family tree shows the correct information (Richard Ensign as her spouse and their three children). So there's no way in the family tree view to see that Richard Ensign had two wives? The system picks one or the other?
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@Alan E. Brown Thank you for the explanation! Very helpful. I'm just starting to figure this stuff out - appreciate the assistance!
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