Genealogy Chat

I am trying to add a mother born 1820 to my family tree.The son was born in 1842.Everytime I press save changes it tells me that the mother must be older than the son which according to my calculations she is.I do'nt remember having this problem before. :-S

Sounds like it could be a glitch with GR. You might have to contact support and ask for help.

Or could you delete the son and try adding the mother first and then add the son.

Gai

Could it be because you are adding her to him? thought you had to add children to parents? and not the other way round

I may be wrong but thats all i can think of

Roy

You can add either way. Try using a different YOB just to see if it works, you can always edit later. Or change son's DOB to see if it works.

John/grannyfranny, I haven't added to my tree on GR for the last 7 years now, but i do seem to remember that back then if you had not got an entry for the mother, so you had father with son/daughter and no mother, then you would have to enter wife/mother before child, so it was recommended that if mothers name was not known at the time, before you entered a child to a sole fathers name it was best to enter mothers name as (unknown) you could then add the child and edit the mothers name at a later date.

hope you understand what i mean,

Roy

I've just tested it on my tree with a selection of dates and it seems to work as it should.

Double check your dates. One or other will have been entered incorrectly or mis-typed in the YOB and/or DOB fields. Try blanking them out altogether and re-entering them for the son, then see what happens when you add the parent.

Thanks for all your replies.I've just tried again but to no avail..Ithink I'llSwitch off and try another day.

I tried again this morning and it worked like a charm :-)