Cathy Thanks for the explanation, but I had never merged this person (I almost never do merges), and each of his parents had only been married once. There are no ghost parents for him. Each time this happened, Legacy was showing that he had no parents when he was the main person on the Family View screen, but when he was on the Family View screen as a child, he showed up as their child. When I clicked on his name as a child, his parents disappeared in the Family View. I do know abt cycling thru marriages by clicking to the left/right of the person and cycling thru the children.
Mary Moyer On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:03:17 +0800 Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have disappearing parents, the most likely explanation is that > > the children are linked to two sets of parents, even if one set is > invisible. Check the number of parent sets they have by looking at > their parent icon when they are in the main position in Family View > - > or click beside the parents in Family View to rotate through the > parents. > > If you find ghost parents, Right click on the person when the > unwanted set are showing and choose "unlink from parents". > > If a child goes missing in the Child List in Family View, then check > > the number of marriages for each spouse or what parents are listed > for the child. Again keep an eye on those icons - how many spouses > do > they report? You can cycle through spouses by clicking alongside the > spouse. > > Depending on how the child has been added or linked you may find > they > are only linked to the father - and he also now has an unknown wife, > > or only linked to the mother who now also has an unknown husband, or > > linked to a "second marriage" of the same couple. The solution is > unlinking the wrong relationships and, where necessary, relinking in > > the right place. > > While I'm mentioning clicking in the margins next to the boxes in > Family View, do you know you can move the preferred child up by > clicking next to the Child box? This is a quick way to move down the > > tree through the preferred line. > > Cathy Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
