Cary,
I want to take one step back here and make sure you added the child to
the
correct parents. In Family View, if the child is showing up with your
preferred mother and not the father you want, then the child was entered
with the incorrect couple in the Family View. (correct mother, incorrect
father)
If this is the case, you can unlink the child from parents, go to Family
View, scroll through the spouses until you have the correct biological
mother & father on the screen, then add the child as a 'Link to an
existing' son or daughter.
This may not be the case, but your comment about the parent having
nothing
to do at all with the child made me think that just maybe the child was
showing on the Family View as a child of the 'non-preferred' father and
not
the biological father.
Regards, Jane Tripp
Cary Jay Vaughn wrote
*Sent:* 06/15/2008 10:24:11 AM +1200
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Family View Biological Parent Not Showing
When I am in family view, the preferred parent shows instead of the
biological parent. How do I get the biological parent to appear and still
keep the "other" parent as preferred?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Mike Fry responded
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From: "Mike Fry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:59 PM
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family View Biological Parent Not Showing
Cary Jay Vaughn wrote:
When I am in family view, the preferred parent shows instead of the
biological parent. How do I get the biological parent to appear and still
keep the "other" parent as preferred?
Simple answer is: You don't! If you want the biological to appear every
time, then that has to be the preferred parent. There is only one
preferred
parent, and that is the one that will appear by default. To get the other
one to show, right-click alongside the parents in the Family View -
similar
to running forwards or backwards through the siblings by clicking or
right-clicking between the two main individuals on Family
View.
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
Wendy Howard responded
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From: "Wendy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 8:31 PM
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family View Biological Parent Not Showing
Hi Cary,
That is what "preferred" means - see the Help System, where under
"Preferred, Spouse" it says:
"A Preferred spouse is the spouse automatically shown when their husband
or
wife is selected or displayed on the Family or Pedigree View as you
navigate through your ancestors and descendants."
If it is the biological parent that you want to show when you go to their
"spouse" (or former partner or whatever), then set that person to
preferred. It does not indicate who raised the child, or anything else -
it only determines which spouse will be displayed when you navigate to a
particular person.
To scroll through a person's multiple spouses, go to the side of that
person that is nearest the edge of your screen (ie, the left of the
husband
or the right of the wife) and click with your left mouse button in the
background area beside that person. Keep clicking to cycle through all
spouses if needed.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/>
Cary Jay Vaughn responded
From: Cary Jay Vaughn
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family View Biological Parent Not Showing
Thanks for the help. The clicking to the left is very helpful.
Is there a way to turn the "preferred" setting off? It is very deceiving
to
see someone as a parent when they really had nothing to do with the child
at all. There is no adoption or anything like that. There is no
connection
to the child at any time or in any place. The "preferred" spouse merely
married
the father.
Thanks again!
