To keep peace in the family, you might create two databases. One using legal rules and the other using familial rules. This would include adopted and foster children as full blood descedants of the adoptive parents. When (and if) family members understand it is no slight of their postition in the family, You can remove the inaaccurate but 'beloved' version. Hide the legal version from prying eyes if needed. Rich in LA CA
----- Original Message ---- From: Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:40:19 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Step children in descendent chart--was: Chart question Jenny, I understand what you're saying. However, the spouses of direct line descendents are included even though they are not blood relations. And the child from a previous marriage of that spouse is also a 1/2 child of the spouse in the descendent line, right? I know I will get "flamed" about this, but when we all try so hard to include a child into our family (especially when the circumstances of their birth or early childhood are difficult), it seems cruel to leave them out of our family tree. The example we have is one of the grandchildren on my husband's side. I wouldn't want to print a family tree (descendent) at all if someone who is part of the family was going to see that "technically" they are not part of the family. Hey, I'm not usually labeled "touchy feely" but... How hard would it be to add an option to include 1/2 children? With that "opening volley" (I'm sure), I'm signing off for the night. ;) --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> Mary Figgins wrote > There is no problem showing the 1/2 children in Legacy. What I need is a > chart such as descendancy that would show these children that are related by > marriage and not blood. Your problem is that Legacy (and Legacy Charting) are *genealogy* programs and genealogy is based on blood relationships. You cannot have a "descendancy" chart which shows non-blood relatives because they are not descendants! Legacy will show 1/2 children because Legacy shows them as part of a family unit of parents-and-children and they are related by blood to one of the parents. -- Jenny M Benson 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 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
