When you turn on Relationship to Root, other than constantly changing root to husband or wife, have it display the relationships of the wife’s family like this.
Doe, John (granduncle of wife)
This does not seems as simple of a request as one would think at first blush.
I’ve often wanted the focus of Gramps to be a “Home Family” rather than a “Home Person” for reports and charts. But Family-based navigation and display would need some re-work to make something like that usable.
As would the relationship calculator.
There’s a lot of ambiguity about the labels used for the partners in a relationship too. The “wife” is only correct when the relationship is of type “Married”. There are a lot of variants based on relationship type and gender.
The developers haven’t been able to reach consensus and a clean alternative for for the Father/partner1 and Mother/partner2 in the interface. That would need to be resolved for this request to be viable.
I have that set to that with myself as root. When I bring up my wife’s mother I just get her mother’s name and ID. It the same for all her relatives.
Yes, that was understandable from the the original posting.
I’m just suggesting that the feature request is not viable.
Although the relationship could be calculated to the spouse/partner of the Home Person, the designation of the Spouse/Partner is too ambiguous.
So same sex marriages wouldn’t work if that’s what you mean. I don’t see where that would be a problem cause those marriages are far and between unless we’re talking about the root person having multiple marriages. Rootsmagic and Family Tree Maker both allow for showing wife’s family relationships.
Again. Wife/bride/spouse and husband/groom/spouse are only valid with a relationship of “marriage” (and possibly “civil union”, not “unmarried” or the default “unknown”.
Yes, same sex adds another layer of complexity. As do multiple marriages. (Such as… should it say ex-wife, 1st wife, or similar?)
But you cannot discount any of these if they are built0in conditions.