Hi Philip,
With complicated situations, you just have to work through it
carefully, person by person, relationship by relationship. Make sure
you have the correct set of parents (or father or mother and
unknown/blank) showing before adding or linking a child. If you are
linking a child, make sure you link to a couple if that "marriage"
already exists in your database or you'll create another "marriage"
for the parent you them to.
Some situations can best be handled in notes rather than in adding a
second set of parents. I think I'd do this with your "Asian child".
Of course Legacy assumes a "marriage" when you enter a child. All
children have two biological parents however the egg and sperm came together.
On the marriage information screen there is the check box you want to
note if they were not married.
You then have the choice of changing the wording for this relationship.
When you unlink someone, they are not deleted. However, they or the
person you were interested in going to next, may have disappeared off
the screen. Find them in Index View and then return to Family View or
by using the History buttons to navigate back to them.
Cathy
At 10:26 PM 1/11/2007, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I can see from reading the posts that setting up 1/2 siblings and
adopted children is an issue, one that I have myself.
My dad had a daughter out of wedlock, a year later the mother got
married and her husband adopted my sister and after they had two children.
Maybe I'm not getting it, but it seems that Legacy always assumes
that if a couple has a child they are married and then you have to
type in this couple never married. It would be better if there was
a box that could be checked. It's also tricky navigating between
the biological and adoptive parents. It's too bad that you can't
display both at the same time instead of clicking between them.
Getting back to 1/2 siblings and an illegitimate child, this one is
really bad.
My uncle was married but his wife cheated and had a son that my
uncle thought was his until the child got older and it turned out to
be an Asian child but he still raised the child as his son, and the
son carries his name. So there was no legal adoption because my
uncle was listed as the father on the birth certificate. My uncle
also had a biological child wife the woman before getting
divorced. Next he had two children with a woman he didn't marry and
he kept custody of the children. Later the woman got married and
she has a family of her own with kids. Later my uncle got married
and is still married with four children.
So I've got a non-adopted accepted child who is only biologically
related to his sister by the mother and he is not related to any of
the other children but the sister is a half sibling to him and the
other children. The following two kids out of wedlock are full
blooded siblings but half siblings to the other kids and no blood
relation to the first illegitimate boy. Next are the four kids from
the 2nd marriage all full blooded siblings and half siblings wit the
other with the exception of the illegitimate son.
With the above situation having check boxes for what's being entered
would certainly help and it would make things clear with a limited
chance of mixing up who goes with who. Once you have attached a
child to a wrong set of parents I've found it hard to unlink them
and sometimes when you do so they get deleted.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks,
Philip Thorne
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