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I am sure I wont be the first person to ask this but I cant work out how to do it.

I have two familes on different lines of my tree who married each other...... how on earth do I do it so I dont have 2 of each of the individuals???

Would appreicate any help. thanks :-)

YIKES now I am going to have double everything as both descendants and ancestors need to be entered twice??? Surely there is some way to fix this.

i'm afraid that you cant ,not on genes,
i've got the same thing on my tree, what i do is put the two that have married on twice ,then write in the notes what i've done, and say look in other entry for info. hope this helps ...iris

Oh no!!! How confusing..... Surely genes can see it was quite common for cousins.... brothers marrying other brothers sisters lol..... hell I even had a brother marry a sister!!

:-( does any other program do it do you know?

Yvonne, you will need to put your information into a family tree programme first. Most will let you merge 2 people with the same name into 1. Then you will need to import it to here as a gedcom file. Problem solved.

This is one of the problems that genes have been going to sort out for years, but never have!

nudge for yvonne

another nudge for Yvonne.

again!

I was telling one of my friends about my family tree and I said her family tree would be complicated. Her and her first husband got divorced and her second husband is the ex-husband of her ex-husband's second wife. Imagine trying to put that on a tree!

I would add that even importing from a program such as FTM will not solve the problem entirely. I have a number of multiple relationships in my tree and whilst, yes, you can upload them, they still don't appear correctly when you look at the result on GR.

However, at the end of the day I am not bothered one bit as I see GR as a tool to record the names I would like to match with others, not for producing fancy tree charts.

Don't know what your multiple relationships are Brinsley, but my grandparents were cousins and it uploads perfectly from a gedcom file to here. Saves re-entering all the names twice and complicating the tree.

Works for me too, Maggy. I've only recently reloaded a tree from a gedcom and it's uploaded fine

Another nudge for Yvonne....