Ron said:
As is known, should an individual have a child and there is no existing
'marriage' then Legacy creates one, and unless told otherwise will enter
"Joe Bloggs married Unknown/someone" in reports. However there now seems to
be a change in the way that this is treated if a partner is subsequently
added. I haven't been able to pin it down but the order in which one adds
partners now seems to be more important than it once was, eg to avoid
problems 'marry' the couple before giving them children!
Ron, in v7, a very routine procedure for me:
1. I add a wife to a fellow already in my database
2. I add the wife's father
3. I add the wife's mother
Never do I go to add new individual without knowing the relationship ahead
of time, so I would never add the wife's mother and father and then link to
an existing child. The wife, by the way, is always added subsequent to the
father. Not knowing how to add more than one person at a time, one is always
subsequent to the other. I just tested several of my people in an ancestor
book report and nowhere does the name "someone" appear. I'm aware that what
we are discussing is the case of knowing the mother, but not knowing the
father, then later learning the name of the father. Are people creating a
new person, or are they changing the name of the unknown person already
linked to the mother?
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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