I too have "Unknown" added, that I didn't add and "Unknown" married to "Unknown", I've not been able to delete them and yes, it's very annoying. Syble Glasscock
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Connie Sheets <[email protected]> wrote: From: Connie Sheets <[email protected]> Subject: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents To: [email protected] Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 11:59 AM I know this topic has been discussed several times before, in one manner or another, but I can't come up with the proper search terms to find what I need in the Archives. Yesterday, I attempted to link two individuals who were already in my database as father and daughter. The father was in my database as a totally unlinked person (no parents, no children, no siblings, no spouse). The daughter was an "end-of-the-line" ancestor with many descendants. As best as I can remember the sequence I used, I first added a new, named wife to the father, then attempted to link them to the daughter. But I might have started with trying to link him to the daughter before entering a wife's name. In any event, it took several minutes of errors stating things like "She is already linked to these parents" (which she most certainly was not), or, "she already has parents, do you want to link to another set of parents?" before I discovered there was a phantom "unknown" spouse for the father. I then thought it should be a simple matter of unlinking the daughter from this phantom marriage, deleting the unknown spouse/marriage, and relinking to the proper named parents, but that didn't work either without several tries. In one case, the "unknown" spouse was deleted and magically reappeared again. What is causing these "Unknown" spouses to appear? Is there any way to prevent it? In checking my Marriage List, I see I not only have several phantom spouses, I have some Unknown to Unknown parents of some end-of-the line ancestors that I certainly never added. This seems to have started in a relatively recent version (maybe from 6.0 to 7.0?) Is this not a "bug"????? (It is certainly annoying). Thanks, Connie Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
