In the children's settings screen the birth relationship uses biological. If you are going to add a source for a biological parent-child relationship then you should also input data in the children's settings screen. If you do not input that biological relationship then reports will not report it nor will the source citation be included.
The sources screen includes a list of possible places you can enter data but you should only use those where there is data entered. The source list includes such things as a sources for "never married", "had no children" for a marriage for example but these should only be used if you have checked the appropriate box on the marriage information screen. The rel to father and rel to mother are similar, the sources entered on those should only be linked if you have actually entered a father/mother relationship. I would use a birth certificate as a source for the name and birth of the child. In the same way that a couple are considered married if no special status is entered on the marriage scree, the relationship of the child to the parents as biological is assumed. For myself I would only go through that process to document parent-child relationships for other than biological parents. Adopted children for example with adoption papers as the sources. For a second marriage where some children are step children of one parent I might use the second marriage documentation as a source but generally I do not source step relationships even though I will indicate the step relationship to the second spouse on the children setting screen when I link the child of a first marriage to a second marriage for report purposes. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 02/01/2012 8:17 AM, Brian Lehman wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for the reply and please bare with me, I'm confused. > In the individuals assigned source window under "father rel: and Mother > rel:", > I have added the source,a birth certificate. > Are you saying I should also, in the "children's settings" window > select "birth" for Mother/Father relationship to have the parents names > properly sourced > or should I be working with the "child status"? > > Or simpler, what is the process to properly source a persons parents > names when you have documents to prove it ? > Thanks for your patients. > Brian Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
