Tutorials and SamplesTutorials and SamplesThis page contains tutorials and sample genealogy tree for special scenarios.
GenoPro has support for unlimited number of spouses and husbands for each member in the tree. As a convention, the husband is displayed to the left and the spouse is displayed to the right. In the case of multiple spouses or husbands, the nearest marriage is always the first marriage.
The first sample is a husband who had three spouses. The husband had three children with the first wife, then divorced. The husband married the second wife, had one child with her but no longer lives with her but with someone else.
The second sample is the same scenario as the first sample, except the spouse had three husbands. She had three children with her first husband and divorced. The wife married another man, had one child with him and now lives with someone else. Please notice the oldest child is always at the left most position of the marriage of the parents. In this sample, the "Oldest Brother" is older than the twins and the half sister. The "Half Sister" is the youngest of all the children because she was born during the second marriage.
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Use the Family Wizard to add a second spouse or husband. Simply select the member you want to add a second spouse or husband and click on the Family Wizard toolbar button. |
The problem arises when both the husband and wife have multiple spouses. This sample is the case where Albert had Claire and Julie as wives and Julie had Bob and Albert as husbands. Julie's first husband was Bob (the nearest marriage) and Albert's first wife was Claire (the nearest marriage).
The last sample is from the sample file MorinTree.gno. If you have already installed GenoPro and your browser can host an ActiveX control, click MorinTree.gno and press the key (3) to goto bookmark #3. A bookmark allows instant navigation to a position in the tree.
The story can be interpreted as follows. Serge married Christiane and then married Diane (remember, the nearest marriage is always the first marriage). There is no information about Serge and Christiane divorced, however we know they had three children, Evelyne, France and Rémy. Diane's first husband was Jean-Claude (the nearest marriage), she had two children with him, Nancy and Martine, and divorced him. Dianne married Serge and had two children with him, Jennifer and Stéphanie. By reading the age in the squares and circles, we can observe the tree is consistent because the the oldest of each family is at the left, followed by younger and younger siblings. Since we have three marriages, we have three families and therefore three oldest "big sisters", Nancy, Evelyne and Jennifer.
This sample can apply for marriage between siblings, first cousins, second cousins and
like. You simply create your genealogy tree as usual, then you select both the
husband and wife and click on the Family Wizard 
button. In this example, you would select Robin and
Anne and hit the F key to invoke the Family Wizard. If you already have a family
created, you simply select Robin and use the "Link As Parent" to link Robin as
the parent of Michel. You repeat the process to link Anne as the parent of Michel.
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This is the case of of two brothers married to two sisters from a different family. In this example, the two brothers are John and Danny and the two sisters are Marielle and Rosanne.
A husband and a wife divorce and get re-married later. To achieve this, you treat each marriage as a different family. By looking at the sample, Paul and Sue were born during the first marriage and Karen during the second marriage. The easiest way to create the second marriage is to use the Family Wizard and then re-link the husband and wife from the first marriage to the second marriage. Use the right-click of the mouse and select "Link As Parent" to perform the links.
GenoPro 2.0 will provide a mechanism to distinguish a divorced couple or if they have anulled their marriage.
This may be the case of a single man or woman adopting a child. The easiest way is to use the "New Son" or "New Daughter" toolbar button to adopt the child and delete the unnecessary husband or wife. Then, double click on the child link and select "Link As Adopted Child".
You may notice there is a marriage object between the single mother adopting a child and the adopted child. You may open Miscellaneous.gno to see how it works.
Twins are represented by connecting the child link together. GenoPro version 2.0 will have a "Twin Link" and will automatically connect the links together. In the meantime do not use the AutoArrange button because the AutoArrange does not recognize twins.
GenoPro does not have direct support for labels. Labels and floating pictures will be available in version 2.0. In the meantime, you can create a member with a long name for its label. You may want to hide the gender so the label does not have a square or a circle.
An alias is a mirror copy of an object. Version 2.0 will support genuine aliases where the alias will behave like a shortcut of an object rather than a mirror copy of it.
An alias can be handy when the same member is needed at more than one location in the genealogy tree. It is important to check the "Exclude From Report" checkbox, otherwise GenoPro will interpret the alias as another child of the family.
There are two methods to create an alias:
Method A:
Method B:
Method B makes it simpler to create an alias however you are likely to have to move/reposition links to make the genealogy tree look good.
You may open file Miscellaneous.gno to see how each sample tree is created.
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