By Marriage or Blood relation

When you first load your tree Doreen it will tell you who it thinks the "root person" is. This is taken from your file and is how your family history program has set up the root person. All of the relationships are calculated from the root person. Most often this root person will be yourself. If a different person is set as the root the the relationships will be wrong. You can change the root person either by changing it in your family history program which will then set it as the new person every time you export the file in future. Or you can change it each time you load the file into FTAnalyzer by clicking on the individuals tab finding the person, right clicking and selecting set as root person. It will then tell you its changed the root person for this session only to that new person.

 

Ah so you are saying that she has a different relation type on different FTAnalyzer reports? That shouldn't be possible so yes it is a puzzle. Can you tell me exactly the steps you take to open each report and I'll see if I can work out why its different.

 

Ok well the Lost Cousins website shows what you selected when you entered her onto the website. I'm guessing that if FTAnalyzer says its a by marriage relationship then that's right if you have selected the right root person? If so then you just need to edit the relationship on the Lost Cousins website to fix the discrepancy.

 

Are you able to trace yourself back to this person if you visually look at a tree?
Also most FHS allow you to run a relationship report, so what does your FHS think your relation is?

 

Strange, that's not a difficult one to work out. Can you check to see if you have duplicates? One of them linked in and the other not?

 

Then the issue must be with her husband?

 

Is he showing as a blood relative in FTAnalyzer? What is his relationship showing as in FTAnalyzer? Is it correctly showing 2nd great granduncle, and blood relative?

 

Then he is only related by marriage then? Assuming you are from your gr-gr-grandmother and a different husband?

 

Related by Blood and related by marriage. Maybe its just the way it climbs back up the tree to calculate the relationship?

 

In theory it should do blood relations first and only set to married if he didn't have a relation type already. It would be interesting to see a snippet of the GEDCOM that had the relevant participants so I could see how it was calculating the relationships. Re-marriages like this you typically want to have the strongest relationship as the default.

 

It was fun