Thanks everyone for the helpful comments. Lavern Hall
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:38 PM, R G Strong-genes <rgstrongge...@gmail.com>wrote: > Lavern, > For him to appear as Adopted on reports and in family view you have to > change the child Status to adopted from the children settings screen the > father mother relationships are separate fields and would appear in a > different section on reports when you select to show relationships. > > *From:* Lavern Hall <lavernh...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 01, 2013 4:33 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] charts and adopted children > > Thanks, Ron. You are correct. > What I was trying to do is create a Father's Tree for each of my aunt's > grandchildren. > > There are three children in total, two of which are biological and one > child belongs to each of her two daughters. The third daughter adopted a > baby boy (Noah) and who is the youngest member of the family. I wanted to > be fair and give all three children a Father's Tree, so there wouldn't be > hurt feelings. I didn't know how to do this for Noah since the generations > of people on the chart are not his heritage. > > I created a Father's Tree for him today and to my surprise, there was no > indication that he was adopted. His birth (date/place) appeared and nothing > more (eventhough I had the child relationship settings for each parent set > as "adopted".) Perhaps if I had a date of his adoption, that may have shown > on the chart; but for now, it looks like everyone will get a Father's Tree > of their own. > > Thank you Ron for replying to my posts and for the help you offer this > list. > > Lavern Hall > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ron Ferguson > <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk>wrote: > >> Lavern, >> >> I am not clear whether you mean a separate tree with her biological >> parents, or inclusion in the family of her adoptive parents. >> >> Any individual can have multiple sets of parents, known or unknown,. An >> adopted child can be linked to her adoptive parents, and if desired can be >> designated as “adopted” by right clicking the child’s name>Children’s >> settings and choosing father’s and mother’s relationship. >> >> Ron Ferguson >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> >> >> *From:* Lavern Hall <lavernh...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:27 PM >> *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> *Subject:* [LegacyUG] charts and adopted children >> >> Hello all, >> >> I am putting together a variety of charts >> to put into a book ( including a Father's Tree >> and Mother's Tree. My aunt has four children, >> three are married with biological children of >> their own and the fourth sister recently married >> and adopted a baby boy. >> >> Since I am including charts for her siblings >> biological children (e.g. Father's Tree), is >> there a chart in Legacy that I can put together >> for her adopted child. I am not trying to have her >> feel left out. >> >> Any ideas are appreciated. >> >> Lavern Hall >> Aurora, Ohio, USA >> > > -- > Russell G. Strong > P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy > program can be downloaded FREE at > http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133&Click=1114 > Oh so many branches and not enough time to check out all the roots!!!. > Check out my Genealogy Pages at http://www.rgstrong-genes.com . > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > 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
