How to add two sister married to two brothers

[philipt18]

I was researching my family and realized that two brothers are married to two sisters. The brothers' family is already in place, and I've added the parents for one of the sisters. How do I add the parents of the second sister so they are the same people, and not separate?

[dfilpus]

Go to the family card for the parents. Do one of the following:
1. Under Add Children, select Add Female Child from the Sidebar. This will populate the Sidebar with a list of persons with the same last name as the father. Find the other daughter and drag her to the Child area.
2. On the People sidebar, find the other daughter. Drag her to Child area.
This will link the daughter to her parents.

[kmgenealogy]

Thank you so much for this information! I just ran into this situation and didn't know what to do!

[SGilbert]

I have the exact same scenario back aways in my tree. Then 3rd cousins, one from each side, married! Those are my parents! (My father's mother and my mother's father are 1st cousins.)

[KirkS]

This happened quite a bit in my part of the world, and in my own family. My g-g-grandfather and his brother married sisters and both had big families of "double first cousins."

It's a fun scenario. I find that in old photos, some of those double-first cousins look like twins!

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

Yes, happened quite often where "pickens" were slim. I have one family where 5 siblings married 5 siblings of another family.

I also have a situation where a father married the sister of his son's wife. Not quite the situation of the poem I am My Own Grandpa, but there are similar elements in both scenerios.