Jane, Every child must have two parents. It's not a marriage structure, it's a parental structure. The mother can be marked as "This person never married" and in the Individual Information Edit window, you can change the designations for the Family View, how the "unknown" is referred to, etc.
Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jane Hakes Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Customizing "Never Married" feature and more Hello Cathy and Karen and anyone else interested, I created a dummy new family and tried adding some strange characters (as in persons, not letters of the alphabet) just to try some of the problems reported here. I added a new unlinked person (no spouse, sibling, or child) and he does NOT show up as married. Nor does he show up on any marriage list/report. So that appears to be working correctly. Could it be the manner in which he was added that makes a difference? I did create a woman with 11 children, however, to test out the 10+ children problem reported earlier, and to make matters complicated, gave them all different fathers. Now this WAS a problem, as Legacy assigned marriage numbers for all the fathers with this one woman, even though I did select 'unmarried'. I would suggest to Millenia/Legacy that future versions somehow acommodate unmarried parents without forcing them into a marriage structure. Maybe there could be a 'relationship' designation ('unmarried partner' for example) instead of marriage to which children could be connected. As another experiment in this database, I also made a single man, then gave him an adopted child by clicking 'Add..son'. For this, Legacy created a 'marriage' (MRIN) with an 'unknown' woman for this man. I can kind of understand why it may be doing this (to just keep order), but it doesn't seem right. And yes, I do know about changing labels, leaving notes of explanation, etc. but these don't solve the underlying problem of failure to acommodate structure for a fairly common scenario. Any thoughts? Jane Hakes 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
