--- tfhughes76 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a question that has only become an issue in the past year. A
> descendant on one of my trees has had a same-sex marriage. Has anyone
> encountered this and devised a method of entering it into the
> program?
I have experimented with the following idea, but have not tested
it extensively:
1. Create a new, empty family tree.
2. Put both people into it, marking one as the wrong sex, and
enter their marriage.
3. Export the tree as a GEDCOM file
4. Open the GEDCOM with notepad or wordpad your your favorite simple
editor and find the lines that look like this: "1 SEX F" (or
something like that) and edit them so they say "1 SEX M" or
whatever the truth is. (Basically fix the wrong sex data you
entered in step 2.)
5. Import this GEDCOM into your "real" family tree.
6. As much as possible, customize the marriage so that the reports
make sense.
Please tell me if this works, how well it works, and what doesn't
work. I will be in the same situation as you next year, when I
start entering various first cousins into Legacy. At least one
is married in Mass to someone of the same sex.
Joshua Levy
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