Welcome to the final episode of our guide to cycle relationships.

Today’s topic is: Mark two profiles as siblings

Another possibility of adding a cycle relationship to your family tree is marking two profiles as siblings. With this tool, you can add children to their correct parents. The details:

When you mark two persons as siblings, person 1 (and all his siblings) gets all parents from person 2 and vice versa. To see the option, the constellation has to meet a couple of conditions:

1. The amount of a person’s parents can never be larger than 2.
2. A person cannot be a sibling or ancestor of his own ancestors.
3. A person cannot be a sibling or descendant of his own descendants.
4. A person cannot be sibling AND child of a parent (or other following generations).

In the example below, James and Jim Doe shall be marked as siblings:

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To add a cycle, click on the icon in the lower right hand corner of your family tree:

  Then you choose the two profiles by clicking on them. The popup window suggests the possible cycles and you choose “Person 1 is the Brother of Person 2“. When you click on “Save” the two persons will be marked as siblings.

After saving, the family tree looks as follows:

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