Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:49:44 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] V 7.0.0.53 - Problem linking parents to child
Dear LUGGERS,
I have had a recurring problem --or several inter-related
problems--linking parents to a child with both versions 6 & 7 and I
surely hope somebody can straighten me out!
This time, I had somehow entered John Doe as a grandson instead of a son.
So I unlinked him from Jacob Doe (who was really his brother) and linked
him to his father, John William Doe (who had only one wife).
As Legacy has ALWAYS done in my experience, it decided John Doe’s mother
was a 2nd, Unknown, wife, and gave John William Doe this new Unknown
wife with John Doe as their only child.
So I deleted Unknown Wife from John William Doe (JWD) and got a screen
(as I always have) telling me that their child John Doe would remain
linked to the individual at the top of the screen, namely John William Doe.
Fine, that's what I wanted.
However, that’s not what happened.
Once I deleted Unknown wife I had JWD and Mary White (Doe) and 10
children, with John nowhere to be found. This, too, has always happened.
So why is John NOT showing up?
(Also, having deleted his Unknown mother but not unlinked him from his
father, (according to the Legcy pop-up box) I looked up John Doe in the
name list --- BUT
when I brought him up --in the Family View screen -- he had No father or
any other relations!!)
Since I couldn’t link in his parents easily, I decided to do it the
other way round and go to their Family View and link him in as a son.
BUT I was unable to see a way to add him to JWD and Mary White as a son
as he was child #11 and there were just two columns of 5 children each
and no blank to click in. I could have probably clicked in the lower
right corner, but I didn’t think about it. (I had it set up, I THOUGHT
to Best Fit as I’d sometimes been seeing one column of children,
sometimes 2, and sometimes 3 depending on the number of children.)
Finally it occurred to me to click on JWD's screen and give an Edit
Children command which I did. That listed his 10 brothers and sisters
and I clicked on the option to Add a brother, and linked him in at that
point. So now -- at long last -- he is child #11 (he was the last born).
QUESTION: Is there some way to set Legacy so that
1) when I need to link in a parent, it will ASK me, e.g., whether I want
to link in the father's existing wife as the mother OR add a new
wife/mother ?
OR
2) if there is already more than one wife so that it will ask me WHICH
wife is the mother OR whether I want to create a new one?
At some point, I went to Help> Add Parents.
==
HELP tells me>
“1. Make sure the individual is in either the Husband or Wife position
of the Family View.
2. To add a father to the husband, right-click in the top half of the
husband's Parents box at the top of the Family View. To add a mother to
the husband, right-click in the bottom half of the husband's Parents box
at the top of the Family View. The Add Father or Add Mother window appears.
3. Click Add a NEW person to create a new record for a new individual or
Link to an EXISTING person if the father or mother is already in the
family file as an individual. If adding a new person, the Information
window appears, where you can enter the person's information. If linking
to an existing person, the Name List appears where you can select the
individual.
4. When you have finished adding or linking in the father or mother, the
name appears in the appropriate location of the Parents box. You can
then continue to add the other parent, if known.”
==
So, I re-tried the whole thing. After linking him to his father I
clicked on the Mother space, and linked him to JWD's only wife, Mary
White . Legacy thereupon AGAIN gave JWD a 2nd wife, this one a SECOND
Mary White! (with one child, John Doe!)
This is not the first time I have inadvertently created an additional
wife/mother when attempting to link in a parent. I must be doing
something wrong! But I don’t know what!
QUESTION: SO-O-O can someone please tell me how to link in existing
people as parents without creating new spouses for one parent!!??
I also had another problem with Help, which I’ll put in a separate email.
Thanks in advance for your advice, comments, etc.!
Pat
