I am struggling with the order of siblings in Chart / Graph View - when adding another marriage. 4 siblings, all married, each of the 4 families has children. All fine All fine until I add another marriage to one of them, and the sibling with two marriages move to the far left. I tried everythin…

Can you attach a snapshot of what you see ?

[image] yorkshire_lad: am I stuck No, that would be me :grin: Unfortunately I can’t help you with your actual question. One of my ancestors married twice and Graph View shows his first wife to his left to his left with the three children of that marriage underneath. His second wife is show…

Hmm, just checked another person in my tree who married twice. In that case Graph View does not show his children in chronological order. :person_shrugging:

This a well known long standing point with GraphView and is nothing to do with GRAMPS as far as I am aware. The issue arises from Graphviz attempting to produce the most compact version of whatever it is being asked to. Graphviz does not attempt to understand or deal with the complexities of fam…

[image] stuck: Hmm, just checked another person in my tree who married twice. In that case Graph View does not show his children in chronological order. :person_shrugging: In this case, I create two families with the same parents. When you create the second family, gramps says you should us…

Many thanks for the suggestions and the follow-ups. Two snapshots below, person in question (GRAVES, Arthur Tommas) circled, first snapshot with one wedding (siblings in date order), second snapshot with two weddings (Arthur Tommas Graves apparently repositioned in Graph View to left; all I did was…

For children, the date of marriage is very important. The date of marriage takes precedence over the date of birth. It is very difficult to know what we really want. Graphviz is a mathematical library for drawing graphs and the library tries to minimize the surface of the graph. Several changes h…

Graph View: Sort Order of children after adding second marraige

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SNoiraud February 6, 2025, 4:23pm 6

In this case, I create two families with the same parents.
When you create the second family, gramps says you should use the first family. Ignore that. You’ll have the following:

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Graph View: Sort Order of children after adding second marraige

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