Family Tree Problem

[3sillydogs]

Not sure where to post this, I have a large family tree on Ancestry and have discovered a problem.  I have:

Thomas Templer b 1821 m Leah Beecham b 1823

BUT

Thomas is the son of Jesse Templer 1791-1853 and Mary Beecham 1793-1847

AND

Leah is daughter of Joseph Beecham 1799-1839 and Sarah Hunt 1801-1997

BUT

Joseph and Mary are siblings Parents James Beecham and Charlotte Lowry

Question:

How do I show them on my tree not as separate branches, on paper it would have been easy to show the two sides merging, but cannot for the life of me do it on the online tree.


Any suggestions appreciated

[Kiltpin]

I have noticed that how Ancestry displays a tree online (on a screen) is totally different from how it is displayed when it is printed out. When printed out, every connection and person is included.

Regards

Chas 

[3sillydogs]

It's just that when you look at the tree it appears that there are two separate families when in fact it is cousins who married, so the people are duplicated.  Perhaps I'll just have to live with it.

[Ellenmai]

I have had this problem a few times with cousins marrying, what you have to do is delete the marriage link of Thomas Templer & Leah Beecham and start again.

1) - Start with Thomas Templer click 'Add family member'
2) - click 'Spouse'
3) - At the top left hand side of the box that comes up click 'Select someone in your tree'
4)  - Put in Leah Beecham then click 'Save'

Hope that works for you 

[JAKnighton]

As far as I know there is no way to get Ancestry to display this relationship the way that you want it. You will need to make your own custom chart.

[3sillydogs]

I'll give that a try.

I do have a customized chart, which I did, it was while I was doing it that I picked this up