newbie question for extremely large family

[antal28]

Not sure if anyone can help. Attempting to enter family history that can be traced back to 1410. My problem is that somewhere even starting off with something simple like my parents isn't working. Both mother & father show at the top of my card & next to each other on their cards. Yet, there is no indication on their card together that they are mother & father.

Got so far last night as entering my fathers parents and his 15 brothers & sisters. Again the same problem that it showed my fathers father as my grandfather, but no listing to indicate my grandmother. Is there an automatic link that is popping in on it's own? Or am I by accident doing something that creates or deletes a link that makes the parent, grandparent etc. show next to their names?

So confused last night that I totally deleted everything I had entered and started again. But, with the same problem I don't want to go on.

I'm an only child, however all family member at my parents level and back have large numbers. IE..my father is one of 15. So it's very important that I get this right from the start. Read and re-read the tutorial, but it isn't any help.

Greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer.

Mikal

[SGilbert]

Start with yourself---add your parents. Go to FIND-->RELATIVES. Click yourself. Now YOU become the "source".

Every so often you will need to do it again, as Reunion will not label people automatically; only when you ask it to.

[AE Palmer]

First off, don't worry about the relationships just yet. Reunion is keeping the information properly, it just isn't showing the connections at the moment. Further, Reunion uses rectangular boxes for males and rounded boxes for females – thus keeping the gender straight automatically. My advice is to continue to add your data. Once you feel the overwhelming urge to see the relationships, go to OPTIONS --> RELATIVES, select the relationships you wish to display and press LINK. Reunion will generate a relationship report and add these tags to each person on the family cards. (They show up next to the green plus sign for both man and wife).

BTW, 1410 is a very long way back in time. Once you hit the early 1600s, documentation becomes extremely fuzzy and unreliable. That said, it is still possible to find legitimate records for events earlier than the 1600s. The problem most professional genealogists and other serious researchers have with those so called royal genealogies is that there were vast numbers of completely fictional histories made for unsuspecting consumers in the mid 1900s and any new research based on these documents are considered to be worthless. Thus, for these records to be believable, you will need to examine the original records for yourself. (Or at the very least find someone in Europe willing to dig for them and record the information for you). If, by chance, your data is well documented and verified, you are very lucky indeed.

[joeswann]

I've got a screen capture movie I made that may help you. Compressed it is about 6.5 MB. If you would like just e-mail me at swannj1@k12tn.net and I'll find a way to get it to you (our e-mail system won't let files larger than 5 MB pass through).