Paula, I think that I am either doing something different or misunderstanding. Please see my post in reply to Branko and Chris.
Comments would be appreciated. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _____________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:40:19 -0700 > From: paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Step children in descendent chart--was: Chart question > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > 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 > > 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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get the best of MSN on your mobile http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/147991039/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
