From: <bm...@ca...> - 2007-09-18 09:36:48
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Quoting babbs <bab...@ya...>: > > St=C3=A9phane, > > I am glad to hear that this is possible. I will be following your > recommendation from my other thread, and upgrade to GRAMPS 3.x soon. No, no, no. That is a development version. *Only* use it for testing, it can and probably will destroy your data. Import of GEDCOM in 3.x would probably work better than 2.2.8, but you would not be able to use the result in 2.2.8 as is (notes would be destroyed eg), so it is no use to you at the moment. For TMG, some info here: http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DImport_from_another_pr= ogram section TMG Benny > While I suspect that my specific situation below is somewhat unique, I am > thankful to the forsight of the development team. > > Matt > > > > St=C3=A9phane Charette-2 wrote: >> >>> How hard will it be to represent my crazy relationship (of the personal >>> variety): >>> 1) I was married - No children - Divorced >>> 2) I was married a second time - Two children of this marriage - Divorc= ed >>> 3) Eight-year relationsip - Two children of this relationship - >>> Relationship >>> ended >>> >>> Seems pretty straight forward, but the woman from my first marriage is >>> also >>> the same woman from the eight-year relationship. >> >> That last sentence is the fun part to represent. But, I just tried >> it, and Gramps has no problem showing 2 families with the first >> person. (It warns you that you are creating another family with the >> same people, but in this case it is what you want.) >> >> In short, here is what you do: >> >> 1) create the 2 adults you need (forget the children at this point) >> 2) select yourself >> 3) go to the "relationships" view >> 4) click on the "spouse" button at the top, or click "edit -> spouse" >> 5) add wife #1; insert the marriage/divorce events either now or later >> 6) click OK >> 7) click on the "spouse" button again, or click "edit -> spouse" >> 8) add wife #2 >> 9) click OK >> 10) click on the "spouse" button a third time; add the same person as >> you did at step #5 >> 11a) in Gramps 2.x, the family will default to "married"; change this >> to "unmarried" or "common-law", or ...etc... >> 11b) in Gramps 3.x, I think the default is "unknown", so change this to >> ... >> >> That should be it. You'll note the warning at step 10, but this is >> what you want. >> >> St=C3=A9phane >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------= - >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Gramps-users mailing list >> Gra...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Marriage-and-relationship-representation-tf4470520.= html#a12747396 > Sent from the GRAMPS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. |