But Kirsten, I don't see how this can be. I don't understand how you can
know when a person married without knowing to whom, nor, if by some fluke
you should have this information, why you would make an actual entry without
getting that "to whom". That's the sort of stuff I would put in research
notes and/or a to do.
My other comments have been in response to others posting to this thread.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirsten Bowman" <vik...@rvi.net>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Someone
Elizabeth:
It's actually not a problem of entering parents and children in a
particular
sequence. It comes from adding a person and a marriage date without
knowing
the spouse's name--which can happen occasionally whether you're working
backward or forward. Once the person and marriage date are entered, the
unknown spouse (for reporting purposes) becomes "someone" although that
doesn't show on the individual's information screen, of course. Then if
you
add the spouse's name later, the "someone" doesn't go away; the word is
just
added to the name you entered so you get "Jane married someone John Doe"
in
reports.
Kirsten
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Elizabeth Richardson
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 5:25 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Someone
I believe you are more likely to encounter this bug working backwards. One
can more easily learn the name of one parent without learning the names of
both parents, especially when getting back several generations, which is
when I suspect this problem crops up. When you come forward in time, you
are
more likely to have the marriage information before learning the names of
the children. And, many people never come forward in time unless the
information is simply handed to them, and many don't record it even then.
I
can't even count the number of times I've inquired of someone's research
only to be told "I don't know about her sister, I'm only researching my
own
direct line."
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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