June, To make it less confusing, simple turn off the ½ kids. Right click one of the children in the children’s list and select VIEW then DEselect show ½ Kids. To make double sure that the children are connected to the correct birth parents just scroll through the spouses.
You CAN get all of the children to show on all of the screens but I recommend that you don’t do this. Why? You want everyone hooked up via their correct blood lines. You can easily see how everyone is related to everyone else by simply flipping through the relationships. If you link the children to multiple parents and then go in and designate their relationships to each of these parents (bio, step) your reports are going to be jumbled and hard to read and understand. Most genealogists are accustomed to reading reports of bloodlines so if you send a report or file to another genealogist the first thing they are going to do is unjumble what you did so that they can easily see who the children’s bio parents are. >From a practical standpoint you wouldn’t want to do this because if you want >your file 100% consistent (which you should) you would have to do this for >every single relationship where there are multiple marriages and you would >have to designate bio, step for a whole lot of relationships. Your reports >will not be easy to read. The only time I have two sets of parents attached to a child is if it is a true adoption situation. If a child was merely raised by the grandparents I do not do this, again, for clarity’s sake. I simply put it in the notes that the child was raised by the grandparents and I present my proof (census records, school records, whatever). Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: June [mailto:mai_l...@aapt.net.au] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 3:45 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Showing children I hope I can explain this properly. I have Mary French who married a William Mallet and had children with him. When I look at the screen on Mary and William I see their two children as well as two children that Mary had with a second husband Charles Cooper. – Charles and Mary’s two children are shown as half. If I change to the screen showing Mary and her second husband Charles – I see Mary and Charles’s two children. I see the two children she had with William shown as half. All correct. I also see 4 children that Charles had with his first wife. These are also shown as half. That is all ok. What I cannot do though is to get these 4 children onto the screen for Mary and William. I realise that they have no connection with William and that they have no blood relationship to Mary. However given that they do intertwine in the family I would like them to show but don’t know how to do this. My preferred line to show is Mary and William as this is the direct line. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. June 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
