Gramps 5.1.6
I discovered 2 persons in my tree … they are married to each other and form a family without children.
They are not connected to anyone in the tree … both the individuals and the family are floating around in the tree like lonley stars in the universe.
Since the individuals are connected to each other by marriage the are not displayed as ‘Disconnected individuals’ but should there not be an alert like ‘Disconnected families’?
I have several of these scenarios, I call them islands although I like “lonely stars”, that are not connected to my main network of families.
The families that fall into this category share the same surname as one of my main families with a unique surname. They are not named “Smith”! I have added them to my database with the hope of connecting them when I find the information.
You obviously added them for a reason. But did they get disconnected when they were found to be Not the in-law parents? as an example.
There is an app Not Related (menu >> Tools >>Utilities) that finds any individual that does not have a path back to the Active Person. Once found it allows you to Tag all of these people.
Isolated groups of people (as well as events and places) are also easy to see if you export to GEDCOM and import into yEd, as described in this post.
I think you will have islands in every large tree. I have a line I created going back to 1075, then found one of the family connections was unlikely and unsupported. The severance of that connection left a whole line as an island, but I’m not going to delete them. One day I may find a new connection.
I have disconnected islands of people for very valid reasons.
There are people associated in ways other than blood or marriage: Godparents and clergy; co-workers, friends, and neighbors; authors and researchers of reference materials; eponyms, brothers in arms, and leaders.
Thanks for your input … now I have a deeper understanding of ‘lonely stars’.
I will keep them in the database and hopefully one day they will find a star to connect.
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