Jenny, I respectfully disagree. See my comments inline.
On Apr 8, 2015 2:54 AM, "Jenny M Benson" <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: --- snip --- > Oh for heaven's sake - we're talking about a piece of software here! > It's not human, it doesn't make judgements or offer opinions. > > It's a genealogy program so it's been written to cope with what happens > in genealogy - a man and a woman produce a baby. Nowadays the > circumstances of that happening may differ a great deal to what was > considered "usual" until very recently. > Genealogists do make judgments about their data and the software ought to provide the means to record it as accurately as possible. Yes we can make custom events to handle anomalies but the issue here is that the statement "This individual never married and had no children" can be true but is rarely a known certainty. It is true for my male cousin, as far as I know, however I can't ever know absolutely, and this is an absolute statement. > Maybe the programmers haven't caught up with all the changes yet. Maybe > the owners of Legacy don't WANT to - no one says they have to. There is > an option to suggest changes to the program but there is no obligation > for the Powers That Be to accept them. > > The long and the short of it is, if you don't like the software don't > use it. > It is not a matter of disliking the software but rather one of improvement. Since the statement is absolute, and I can never factually know if it truly is, the statement is useless in my opinion. --- snip --- Larry 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
