Yes - however in your first email you said you had only the first name of seven of the individuals and you were asking how to enter the other three that you didn't have first names for.
My suggestion is to *not* enter anything in fields that you can't confirm the information for. Forgot to mention in the previous post though - create a To-Do to get the info! If I didn't have either name, I would create a To-Do for the mother to research further with the comment that there were x number of children, along with their names, and x more who were unnamed and to search for the unnamed children. If you have only given or surname, enter only the name you have, leave the other field blank and create a To-Do for that person to find the missing part of the name. Don't forget - those 10 children could have had different fathers so you can't assume that the mother's married name is actually the surname of the children. And when you see female children's names in an obit, most often, unless they were young when the parent died, those names could very well be the girl's married names, not their maiden names. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Stratton <s...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Sherry, > I believe you are saying leave the first name blank and only enter the > surname for the 3 children that I do not have the first name. > > This at least gives the indication that these need to be researched for more > information. > Thanks, Richard > > On 1/20/2015 11:44 AM, Sherry/Support wrote: > > I don't recommend entering "unknown" for a surname - just enter the > given name that you know. > > Why not unknown? Legacy has a search for Missing Information and if > you enter *anything* in a field, then Legacy won't know you have > missing information. > > In book reports, you can opt to "insert underlines for missing....." > names and dates and if *anything* is entered in those fields, then > Legacy won't know that you don't have the name or date. > > So you lose the advantage of two great features in Legacy! > > > Sincerely, > Sherry > Technical Support > Legacy Family Tree > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Stratton <s...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > I have an obituary of a mother of 10 children. Seven of them I have > first names and some information. > > What is the best way to enter 3 more children that the first names are > not known by me. > They were born and died in Switzerland. > > The way that I have done this in the past is entering 3 children and > leaving the first name blank. > Also, I may have put a ? for the first name or the word "unknown". > I would like to be consistent when doing this. > Thanks, Richard 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
