Hi Jon,
All children have fathers even if they are unknown.
You cannot add a child in Legacy without adding a "marriage"
The father does not need to be added. You can choose in Options >
Customise to leave unknown fathers <blank> (Data format tab: Word for
blank records)
Your choice is to add all three out-of-wedlock children to the same
unknown father (which you will probably prefer) OR to 3 different unknowns.
If you do the latter, currently you'll have relationship problems
with the relationship calculator.
The children show as 1st cousins to one another, rather than as
half-siblings and they won't all show when you choose to view 1/2
kids in Family View.
This is a known and recorded bug of long standing.
It is often easier to add the child as an unlinked individual and
then link them to the relevant "marriage".
Hope that helps,
Cathy
At 10:24 AM 19/10/2006, you wrote:
I posed this question once before, but am still having problems with the
data entry.
I have a cousin, "Mary," who had three out-of-wedlock children with three
different men before she married and had six children in that marriage.
For the three out-of-wedlock children, I do not know the names of the
fathers. Legacy insists on adding a father before children can be
entered, which
is what I do not want.
I tried adding a "dummy father," entering the child and then unlinking the
"dummy father" from the mother. However, at that point the child
is an orphan
with no parents. If I then try to link the child to the mother, I have to
link to the known marriage; again, that is what I do not want.
How can I add the three children to Mary and not have to include unknown
fathers or link the children to the known marriage? Ideas...please.
Jon Raymond
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