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From: "Rae Jean" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] RE: Brothers without parents
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:44:50 -0500
References: <200508011918.j71JIojR019568@mail.rootsweb.com>


John
You have received several replies suggesting creating a parent record
(either mother or father) for your brothers... good suggestion.

On occasion, I take a different approach and simply use my "SeeAlso" tag
(custom tag in Other group) when there are only 2 siblings that need to be
linked. The purpose of the SeeAlso tag is a quick pointer to the other
person. Enter P1 as one brother and use P2 for the other brother.... then
you can easily switch back and forth between them by double clicking the
memo field appearing on the Details View. However, this does not create a
relationship link like creating a parent record would. I think of it more as
a short cut to the other person and use it when the relationship issue is
not of concern. Later if you wanted to create relationship link, using a
parent record, do so and delete the "SeeAlso" tag.
Rae Jean ... in Tennessee


: -----Original Message-----
: From: JOHN AMBURGEY [mailto:]
: Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 4:37 PM
: To:
: Subject: Brothers without parents
:
: How do I show that two males are brothers when I do not have parents for
: them? TMG tells me that without parents I can not show this relationship.
: I have no information on the brothers family except the fact that they are
: brothers. They married sisters in my family line. Do I need to assign
them
: "blank" parents? That is the only way I can come up with that allows
this,
: but now I have two unrelated "blank" persons in the database.

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