Re: Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Without a doubt

[jaemtp]

Forgot to mention in my last post about the Adoption: The natural father's identity is not known, was never disclosed. So, I cannot enter his name in for the child's father and say "she had a relationship with.." ---- Thanks
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Jan 9, 2009 08:37:01 PM, LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote:

I can address a part of your post, but as you note, ibid and the source
writer conversion tool problems have already been addressed.

First, most of us sign our names, and I don't know what to call you. It's
very difficult to pronounce jaemtp in my mind. Second, please note that
posting to the list is to be in plain text, and I have changed this reply to
reflect that. The font in your post was very small and I had trouble reading
it, though, as you can tell, I did manage.

You wrote: " I wrote about Sibling Relationships - I have three children in
a family file who were born to the same mother but two of them had a
different father. Legacy is incorrectly labeling them in the Relationships
reports as "step brothers" when they are actually half brothers. I reported
this two weeks ago and it is still not corrected. I want to print a
genealogy report for a friend of mine whose Family History I researched -
and I cannot give him something that looks unprofessional as to misclassify
his relationship to his half brother and say 'Oh...it was the software! ' "

I have many half siblings in my database and they appear in the relationship
report correctly. Do you have them linked to the proper parents? By this, I
mean do you have the mother married to both the fathers, and the children
correctly listed with their biological father. When I do this, and set
relationships on one of the children, all the relationships report
correctly.

You wrote: "Sources/Citations as footnotes at the end of the page: I figured
this will be easier - everything is right on one page to read. Well, one of
the facts in my Descendant book report referred to citation no. 18. But,
there was no 18 in the footnotes, it only went as high as 17. "

Do you have the box "If an event has multiple citations, combine them all
into one paragraph" ticked? If so, the second citation number will not be
represented in the footnotes, rather that cite will be combined with the
other footnote. This feature was confusing to many of us until we got used
to it, and apparently it is the currently accepted method of citing sources.

You wrote: "As a side note, It seems like none of these programs are
blended-family friendly - if you want to put the children with the step
parent who raised them for 20 years. Adoptions are also another issue when
you want to include the natural parents (when they are known) but want to
put the child under the adopted parents who raised them."

A child can have more than one set of parents. Simply link the adopted child
to both sets of parents, then if you wish you can set the adopted parents to
the preferred parents, which will then show on reports and on screen.

Hope this helps,

Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson


----- Original Message -----
From: jae...@verizon.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Without a doubt


Hello, thank you for asking:

I have had a series of issues - below are just a few.
My first post had to do with the 'Ibid' feature. The online Help Index
presented this as if it was available. The Customize menu had a check box to
enable it. The Legacy Web page had a Comparsion Chart to other genealogy
software in which it indicated that it (and Roots Magic) offered the Ibid
feature when two others did not - using it as a selling point! So, I wonder
why this is not working. I spent a lot of extra time going over things
trying to figure out what I am not doing right. I get on this forum and one
person (Ron) tells me that it is no longer available.
Similar situation for the Source Template Conversion Tool. They got
instructions how to use this thing. I could not find it and,again, I am
taking extra time trying to learn this and figure out how to access and use
it. I really could have used that because I imported a genealogy file and
half of my citations went into Basic template. I wanted them all under the
Source Writer. But, I then find out that the Source Template Conversion
Tool is still a product of someone's imagination yet - even though the
directions are telling me how to use it. I had to work on rewriting the
Sources/Citations individually in the Source Writer and deleting the older
ones. Then I learn from this forum again that it was either discontinued or
never started.
I wrote about Sibling Relationships - I have three children in a family file
who were born to the same mother but two of them had a different father.
Legacy is incorrectly labeling them in the Relationships reports as "step
brothers" when they are actually half brothers. I reported this two weeks
ago and it is still not corrected. I want to print a genealogy report for a
friend of mine whose Family History I researched - and I cannot give him
something that looks unprofessional as to misclassify his relationship to
his half brother and say 'Oh...it was the software! '
Sources/Citations as footnotes at the end of the page: I figured this will
be easier - everything is right on one page to read. Well, one of the facts
in my Descendant book report referred to citation no. 18. But, there was no
18 in the footnotes, it only went as high as 17.

As a side note, It seems like none of these programs are blended-family
friendly - if you want to put the children with the step parent who raised
them for 20 years. Adoptions are also another issue when you want to include
the natural parents (when they are known) but want to put the child under
the adopted parents who raised them.

I was using FTM vers 10, which was from 2003 when I started genealogy
research. I just sat down and started typing - never had an issue with it.
Several mos. ago, I figure maybe I want to move up to something more
"modern" - forgetting what I already learned about technology - the more
sophisticated it gets, the more problems!

Thank you for your help. !




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