Barry sent Unfortunately when File Maintenance, Check/Repair is run following the Access work around as Jim suggests, the Gender reverts back to the original setting.
BNH Another alternative to Jim's, not using Access. In this case when you run File Maintenance, Chech/Repair husband and wife are replaced by Male/Male or Female/Female and does not revert back. These are my notes from my report at a past LUG (Melbourne Australia) meeting re same sex partners in Legacy. Enter both partners in male and female positions in Family View. You now need to change one partner’s gender, for instance the one designated Female that you want to change to Male. Click the marriage information bar for the pair and remove “replace wife’s married name with husband’s surnameâ€. Go to Wording Options and replace Husband and Wife on the first line (Family View) for Male and Male (or Female and Female). Then override the middle section of the next line that reads “married “ with “has (or had) a partnerâ€. If you need to cover a second relationship insert “next had a relationship with†instead of “next marriedâ€. At the bottom substitute “Partner†and “Partnership†for “Spouse†and “Marriageâ€. Make sure you click Save. We found we needed to insert Partnership in the location field for the word to appear as Partnership instead of Marriage Information in the Family View but is better to leave it out for Ancestor report. Unfortunately partnership will appear in your Location List and has to be ignored! Certainly not a perfect solution. To prevent “she/he†creeping in instead of “he/she†for some reports and charts, edit the event sentence definitions to use [FirstName] instead of [He/She], that would get rid of some of the problems - or use Sentence Override so sentences for others are not affected. This addition was supplied by Cathy in Western Australia. She usually uses [FirstHeShe] in Event Sentence Definitions so that the First Name alternates with the pronoun in reports. Note also in a Family Chart you still get Husband and Wife – not Partners. However, the Descendant Chart seems to work and the Family View is acceptable. Judy From: Jim Terry/Support [mailto:jimte...@legacyusers.com] Sent: Saturday, 17 August 2013 8:03 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same gender marriage??? Legacy won't let you do a same sex marriage or partnership. This may change in a future version of Legacy, but version 8.0. There is a work-around. Before you start, backup the family file. The first steps are exactly what you do when entering a straight couple. The change in sex is made in Microsoft Access. After adding the couple in Legacy (one will be male the other female), make note of their RIN numbers and close the program. Next open the file in Microsoft Access. Here are the steps: 1. Start MS Access. 2. Click on File and select Open. 3. Type *.fdb in the File name field at the bottom of the window and press Enter on the keyboard. Access will now see all files with a .fdb extension. 4. Browse to the directory where the family file is saved and open it. Change the gender of one of the partners: 5. Open the table named tblIR. 6. The IDIR field holds the RIN numbers. Use these to find an individual. 7. The Surname and GivenName fields are self-explanatory. 8. The Gender field holds the sex of the individual: Male = "0" and Female = "1". 9. Change the gender to be the same as his or her partner. 10. Save the file and close Microsoft Access Jim Legacy Family Tree Technical Support 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
