shortcut to cycle thru siblings ?

[Mike Deigan]

are there keyboard shortcuts to cycle thru siblings (and half siblings) of the displayed husband or wife ? like you can with spouses.

I looked thru the Help, and didn't see anything. thx.

[A Ginn]

No one has reported finding what you want. You could post a wish request, but I doubt the half-siblings part would be feasible. I think cycling needs a consistent ordered list based upon a reference that does not change as you navigate. For spouses it is the next individual in Edit Spouses for the same person, and for full-siblings it could be the next individual in the Children tab for the same parents, but with half-siblings the list can change when you move from card to card.

In the meantime there is a workaround you can try that enables cycling through full and/or half-siblings using just the up and down arrow keys. It requires setting the Relatives sidebar to show only siblings and checking the boxes you want for:

> Blood relatives: Actually "full-blood" in this case, as it returns full-siblings only, even though half-siblings are blood relatives through one of the parents.

> Half: Half-siblings AND all their spouses, regardless of the Spouses setting below. This essentially can give half-siblings multiple slots in the rotation.

> Step: Skip this - Reunion does not identify step siblings.

> Spouses: This one goes a little wild, and I would skip it. You get all spouses of the source, full-siblings, and half-siblings whether or not you opted for these groups in the settings above. On top of that you get the siblings of the source's spouses ("Sister of Spouse") AND the spouses of the siblings of the source's spouses ("Spouse of Sister of Spouse").

If you can deal with everything above you are ready to right click a person on a family card and select Find Relatives, then use the arrow keys to cycle through the siblings in the sidebar. The list does not change as you move through the cards.

Note that the arrow keys do not skip the relationship titles and cannot activate the source person, so you will have to click their name at the top of the sidebar to get back to them.