With your examples, I would do nothing as it is appears very clearly that they did not marry or have children.
Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == -----Original Message----- From: singhals [mailto:singh...@erols.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 7:33 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marriages Yes, indeed. We're not required to use that box or any other; if you want to use it, use it; if you don't, don't. And, yes, there are situations where you can state with absolute certainly that someone died unmarried and without issue: what about my great-aunt who died of pneumonia at the age of 6 months? Or the 10-year-old cousin who drowned? Both too young to marry and too young to be a parent. The difference between "not known to have married" and "known not to have married" is more than style. Cheryl Singhal Mary LeClerc wrote: > Finally have to jump in here. While I agree that there are > a myriad of ways to describe what constitutes a "family", > all I expect from a software program is to be able to chart > the relationships and link them together. In my opinion > Legacy already offers all of the options we need to label > these relationships any way we want. Aside from getting hung > up over the words "marriage" or relationship" I just view > the marriage information window as the system that lets me > link two people (or more) to a child. > Consider the following situtations: > Person A and Person B marry and have a child.... > clearly we don't need to use the boxes "never married and > never had children" whether in the individual windows or > marriage window > Person A has a child with Person B..... > Buut they never married so we check the box "this > couple did not marry" in the marriage information window. > "Never had children" does not apply to either. It's a > separate box on this screen as it needs to be. > Person B above now marries Person C and they have a child > and you proceed as usual, > or don't have children together and we > check the "this couple had no children" in the marriage > information window. Again, it's > separated here in the MARRIAGE WINDOW > as it needs to be. > If Person A never marries and never has children, the > combined box is appropriately located in the personal > information screen. > I certainly have no problem checking this if I want to > indicate to myself that AS FAR AS I KNOW this person had no > issue and this is a dead end. > To me it's just taking up valuable screen space to separate > the two on this screen. > Of course we may not know for sure if someone ever had > children. We also may not know for sure if they ever > married. I also don't know whether they like spinach or > are vegetarian! We record what we know or what we feel > comfortable recording. If you are not sure then DON'T CHECK > THE COMBINED BOX. Isn't that simple. > I'm trying hard to imagine a situation where I would be > comfortable say checking "never married" but then saying > "gee I don't know if he fathered any kids here and there. > Maybe I shouldn't check that combined box". If you don't > know and it bothers you, don't check it then. > Just my two cents worth. > Mary > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Ellen > <kramer...@comcast.net <mailto:kramer...@comcast.net>> wrote: > . > > Are you looking for something other than the marriage > box where you can say that the couple never married and > separately you can say that they never had children? We > already have that on the upper left corner of the > marriage editing box. Or is there something else that > you are referring to? > > God bless, > Ellen > > On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: > >> Perhaps a compromise is in order -- if Legacy can't >> bring itself to split the two statements, at least it >> could say, "____ never married and had no known children." >> >> Pat >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Pat Hickin >> <pph...@gmail.com <mailto:pph...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Amen!! It seems ridiculous to me that Legacy >> almost forces us to state as fact something that >> we can not /possiby/ know!! >> >> Pat >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Tony Rolfe >> <geneal...@gillandtony.com >> <mailto:geneal...@gillandtony.com>> wrote: >> >> Can we go back to the original request and >> forget about all the >> extraneous waffle which has appeared on this >> subject. Just because >> Legacy must create a "marriage" record >> whenever a child is added to a >> parent, it doesn't mean that a real-world >> marriage actually occurred. >> >> It is frequently easy to tell that a person >> never married. It is >> usually impossible to state with any certainty >> that someone had no children. >> >> Can we please split the "This person never >> married and had no children" >> fact into two separate facts? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> Tony 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). 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