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From: Linda Bridge <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Help required on adding children please
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:14:30 +0000 (GMT)


I have checked links and although there were some problems these have now been corrected. The Birth event type is correct, I have defragged, refreshed data, exported the whole database, repaired, compacted and checked field codes. Adding the child on the family tab makes no difference either. I have closed GB after all the maintenance and re-opened it but no way can I get the children to add to both parents.

I was using 3.6.5U at the start of this message, but have since upgraded to 3.7.

Following this adding a child proved to be successful. Tried adding a second child and the problem recurred. It seems that between adding children I need to close GB, reopen and check links. There is always a problem with either the father or mother link which I correct, then add the next child, close GB, re-open, check links, correct fault, add next child.

It's a solution, but not the neatest way of adding data.

Thanks for your help
Linda



----- Original Message ----
From: Cheri Casper <>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 8:57:14 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Help required on adding children please


Linda - You may also want to do a check links and refresh data. It seems to
me that some sort of "link" problem exists. You have, I am sure, double
checked the Birth event type to verify that the secondary link is set to
parents in case some strange happened to change that.

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]On
Behalf Of Linda Bridge
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:27 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Help required on adding children please


I've just tried that and it made no difference, but thanks a lot for the
suggestion. The whole thing is just so frustrating it is untrue. I'm so
frustrated I've even considered going back to the other program and I never
thought that would happen EVER. Although it was only a consideration, I
can't see myself actually changing!

Linda


----- Original Message ----
From: Cheri Casper <>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 6:12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Help required on adding children please


Have you tried going to the child's record, deleting the parents on the
summary tab and on the birth event, and re-attaching them vis-a-vis the
birth event?

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]On
Behalf Of Linda Bridge
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:56 AM
To: Genbox
Subject: [GENBOX] Help required on adding children please


This problem is driving me absolutely mad, so if anyone could offer some
advice I would be really grateful.

I am trying to add children to a couple who have each had children prior to
marrying each other, although neither had been married before. At one stage
I wondered if the fact that each of them had a Married-not event and child
before their marriage event could have been causing the problem but that
scenario works okay in a test database.

So back to the problem.

On the summary screen I have mother and father 2 showing. Add child, which
also creates a childbirth event for mother and father 2 both on the
summary tab and the family tab. So far so good. Look at the child's
summary tab or the child's parent tab and the parents are correctly entered.
However, if I then look at father 2's summary tab he does not have this
child showing in the children area.

In consequence if I print a chart or report with him as the focus person the
children with his wife do not show.

I have tried repair/compact, removing all the children and childbirth links,
repairing/compacting and adding them again. Whoever is the focus parent
when I add the children has them showing in the children area and the spouse
only gets the childbirth event not the actual child.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Linda

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