Rich Frankly, I use your system but with one change. I state the Father and Mother portion but change the "had a child with" to "raised a family with". Seems to be more acceptable.
Art Dillman >From: Rich Schulthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] new user question >Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:51:51 -0800 > >Welcome, >On the marriage data screen, on the bottom, you can change the words >used in reports. I use 'father', 'mother', and 'had a child with'. You >can put whatever you think is appropriate, and there are choices on most >report choices screens to use "these" instead of the default fields. I >understand your question but what name would you use instead for the >screen. In my family about 95% of the couples were married, making them >the majority. This is note a value issue but a simplicity issue. >Remember that throughout history the whole reason for documenting any >birth, marriage or death (until recently) was for property rights. It is >possible to set these to permanent in the customize section. If you need >more help, send to me privately. Good luck >Rich in LA > >Peter Wennersten wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am new to genealogy and have just started using Legacy 3.0 for >building > > my family tree. > > > > However, I find it a bit awkward in one respect and wonder if someone >could > > help me. Namely, my parents were never married but the structure of the > > program seems to want that they were. They are referred to as husband >and > > wife and so are all other people who have kids. Unless you change in the > > marriage box to labels you find more fitting (but still you have to mess > > around in a 'marriage box' for unmarried couples). However, even if you >do > > so, the program/command wordings remain unchanged. Is there any way to > > avoid this. It is not deadly important but just the same a bit >irritating > > since this problem is re-occurring in my family tree. > > > > Is there any way of changing this? > > > > /peter > > > > To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
