Jan, this has been one of my pet peeves, too. I use Legacy for descent trees and I find that wording really difficult. Although "Known children" wouldn't always work for me. Presently it says they has X children, x being the number of children listed. As you point out, we often don't know how many children a couple had. Also, in a descent tree you could add all kinds of non-related links if you add every sibling list, even if you know it. I usually do the following. I list all the children in the direct line, their spouses and children and their children's children, and so on [all descendants.] For spouses I include their parents and siblings and sometimes sibling's spouses. If there is interaction with the spouse's family [god-parents, marry other members of the base family, etc.] I may go further. I often put in the spouse's grandparents but usually do not put in the spouse's parent's siblings. In this situation the grandparents info will say Sam and Alice had one child, Peter [Peter being the father of the spouse.] which I know to be false, but I don't want to include spouses aunts and uncles because it gets to far afield. The same is true about spouse's siblings children. I usually do not include them. Then the sentence is wrong again. I want the option of deleting this sentence or modifying it. Joan B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Roberts"
| This is also why I would like to be able to change the wording in the Descendant Narrative Report to "Known children of this couple". The option to change this wording is available in the Descendant Register report, but not the Descendant Narrative. | | Jan Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
