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Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ Now completely revised http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- > From: ronfe...@msn.com > To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Someone > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:59:01 +0000 > > > Elizabeth, > > The procedure which you adopt should not, in my experience, lead to any > problems. In fact it is pretty much the order in which I also enter data. > > I cannot see how the wife is "always" after the father - I have examples of > having a father and not knowing the mother. should read "of having a mother and not knowing the father" (of course) However, that is an aside, the point being that one should excercise care when adding a partner to an individual with children. As far as I can see the sexes of the parent/partner does not matter. > > Others may have found the situation arising under circumstances different to > those I have examined but I have only reproduced it when there is an unknown > partner and a new partner is being added. As I said, I cannot pin point the > exact conditions. > > I have not experienced it in my own work. > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Now completely revised > http://www.fergys.co.uk > View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- >> From: erich...@worldnet.att.net >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Someone >> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:45:09 -0900 >> >> >> >> 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 >> > _________________________________________________________________ > Live Search presents Big Snap II - win John Lewis vouchers > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ _________________________________________________________________ Imagine a life without walls. See the possibilities. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/122465943/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
