She isn't my step mother - how can I change the relationship status?

[ravensreunion]

Greetings, I’m posting here but this issue is also in versions 11 & 12.

My father's first wife is labeled as my Step Mother. I want to find a way to change it b/c it’s not the correct relationship and she had the same surname, no relation. I've searched for a way to manually edit the relationship to no avail. I've recomputed the relationships following Bob White's advice here, cleared and reestablished relationship statuses and even removed their marriage and divorce events & dates yet she still shows as my Step Mother. A search for my dilemma found this post by lmarker with a similar issue.

Can anyone tell me a way to get the relationship status changed to Spouse of Father or removed altogether?

Thanks in advance.

[Deb]

...Can anyone tell me a way to get the relationship status changed to Spouse of Father or removed altogether?

It sounds like your fathers marriages could be out of order in the family file. (I.e., the first marriage may have been added after the second marriage?) To check this theory, go to the family view showing your mother and father side-by-side. Then, click on the red person menu button for your father and select Spouses & Children > Edit Spouses. If your father's first marriage is shown under your father's second marriage, drag them into the correct order within that window (or, if they both have marriage dates, click the Sort button in that window). Afterward, if the relationships do not automatically update, have Reunion re-calculate them.

I hope this suggestion is helpful

[ravensreunion]

That was it, I hadn't sorted them. Thanks so much for telling me how to fix it so my relationships are correct! I spent way too long trying to figure that problem out.

Reunion 13 has a way to sort marriages for all people. Is there a way to do it in Reunion 11, that's the version I work with?

Thanks again!

[Frank]

...Reunion 13 has a way to sort marriages for all people. Is there a way to do it in Reunion 11, that's the version I work with?

The ability to sort marriages globally was added in Reunion 13.

[ravensreunion]

Thanks. I used the Find/No Spouses/# of Spouses more than 1 to list the people needing possible spouse sorting. That saved some time.