COMPLETE FTM - duplicating info

[fiona g]

Hi

can anybody explain why my FTM is sometimes duplicating info.
 e.g.  William Burnside aged 9 living with parents  George Burnside/Elizabeth unknown living in Newton Midlothian and William Burnside aged 11 living with parents William Burnside/Elizabeth unknown in Gladsmuir,East Lothian.The 2 Williams 9&11 are cousins and parents William and George are brothers.
When adding info to the Williams aged 9&11 the info also duplicates to the other William so both Williams have same info.
above is a bit complicated to put into words hope somebody understands what I mean and can help me.  all help appreciated.

Fiona

[DudleyWinchurch]

I don't have FTM but it sounds like you have the same record linked to both of them.  Perhaps when you entered the second one something popped up to ask did you mean the one you already had.  Pressing enter/return would probably have confirmed it.

Does FTM display it's record numbers?  If so, then a quick check would be to see if these are the same.  Otherwise perhaps try listing individuals and see if you have one or two entries for this name.  If there are two, it may be that one is linked twice and the other not at all.

In FH (Family Historian), every time I enter a child I have the choice to select an existing member of the tree or enter a new one.  I can unlink people from their parents, if necessary, and recreate the links between them.  It sounds like you will need to do that for this record.

Perhaps someone familar with FTM can give more precise help.

[meles]

Which version of FTM do you have, Fiona?

meles

[DudleyWinchurch]

Just remembered that I did have FTM but don't use it as I couldn't save GEDCOMs from my version.

On the "People" Menu there seems to be an option to "Fix relationship" so you can detach and re-attach a child from it's parents.  Sounds like that is what is needed here.

[downside]

You seem to be thinking like a human being rather than a computer.

William Burnside 9
William Burnside 11

As a human being you have the ability to think and therefore you can see similarities but a computer does not think and considers these to be 2 completely different records.

FTM will only spot duplicates if they are identical in every respect.  If it does spot two identical records then it will ask you if you want to merge them.

[crystalight]

You seem to be thinking like a human being rather than a computer.

  Downside, I love that one, it really made me laugh out loud - so that's where I am going wrong.

Fiona,

joking apart have you checked in your list of people on FTM to see how many William Burnsides you have entered on the tree?

I have several ancestors with the same name but have never experienced this problem. My FTM is not the latest edition though.

The relationship fix mentioned by Dudley is good for complicated relationships.

Is the problem from downloading a Gedcom or from information you have typed in?

Crystal 

[fiona g]

Hi DudleyWinchurch,Meles,Downside & Crystal

thank you all for your replies and offers of help.
I deleted both Williams aged 9 & 11 and then reinstated them,seems to have solved the problem.I guess my problem with duplicating started with merging,I was warned this could happen. again many thanks.

Fiona