This is a typical relation card (less the magnifying glasses).
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Goes to the Top of the Stack
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Goes to the first People Card
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When you delete a card, all links are cleanly deleted with it. To delete just a single link, Option-click it to change it, then cancel on creating a new link.
However, because of the complexity of multiple marriages, this button will not let you delete cards that have both a previous and a next spouse for either of the parents.
If that is the case, please delete the previous or following marriages before deleting the middle marriage.
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The box with the word "Married" is used to enter the date and location of the marriage.
Below the line for entering data is a button. Pressing this makes a second line, labeled, alternately, "Divorced" and "Separated", as you successively click on it.
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The two boxes on the left show the parents of this relation. Internally, the top one is labelled "Wife", solely because if rotate this screen 90° to the right, it places the husband on the left, as in most 'family trees.'
However, this can be reversed, but be consistent. Once someone is a 'Husband,' he can not be someone else's 'Wife.' If this causes problems for you, please write.
When this field is empty, you are asked if you want to create a new link (or, to link back to a Person card on whom you clicked "To Children").
When it is filled, it will take you to that person's detail card (if any). If you hold down the shift key, the detail card will be skipped, and that person's parents' relation card will be shown (if any). If you hold down the option key, it will change an existing link.
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Up to 15 children may be entered per relation. If this causes you problems, please write.
Like the Parent fields, these fields either start a new link, or finish a link started by clicking on the "To Parents" button on a People card.
If the card has a name in it, clicking on the card will go to that card. Pressing the shift key will go to that person's children (by their first marriage) if there are any, bypassing the People card. Pressing the option key allows you to change an existing link.
For twins, triplets, etc. use the painting tools to change the branches to angled branches from a common root.
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The arrows by the husband and wife allow you to create and move to the next (top) and previous (bottom) marriages for that person. In other words, the arrow above "Henry VIII" goes to his next wife.
When there is no previous or next marriage, the button is hollow. When there is a next or previous marriage, the button is filled in (as in the two middle buttons here).
When you click on a hollow button, there must already be a corresponding husband (for example). You may then create a new card, or move to a card that has a wife but not a husband. Click on the husband field to link this back to the person and the other marriage. You may also change an existing husband by option-clicking that husband field (as usual).
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