How are children of single parents displayed in Legacy Companion and Legacy TreeDraw? Two other genealogy programs I've tried add an Unknown box in a wall chart when there is just one parent name. I don't care for the look of the charts even though they can be edited box by box.
A discontinued genealogy program's chart printed as a sample has five sisters and a half sister out of birth order. At the data entry stage, birth order is more important to me than a compact chart layout.
A chart or report with children attached to a single parent looks better than multiple unknowns if two or more children have different unknown parents (usually unknown fathers.) My preference is to have some children attached to the known bio parent and others attached to a known spouse so that a wall chart has no Unknown boxes. Living people may request the removal of an ex-spouse from a family chart even if there was an official marriage with children.
PAF and one other program that I've tried are limited to one relationship of a child to two parents. Both programs allow multiple parents so there can be two sets of "bio" parents, or one bio parent with two different relationships. Family information is best viewed in the same genealogy program used for data entry.
PAF and Legacy both allow an individual to be added as his own grandparent. Same-name individuals without birth dates are easily merged by mistake and hard to trace if a file has real cousin marriages. -- Elizabeth
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The program does not recognize half-siblings as being related, unless there is something entered for both parents' names. Example, if your grandmother had a child with an unknown man, you have the child correctly linked to just your grandmother, and you don't enter *anything* for his/her father's name, that child does not show *any* relationship to you. If you actually enter "unknown", or "?" or something like that then that child will show as your half uncle or aunt. Quite frankly, I don't want my database cluttered with a bunch of "unknown"s.
Ruth Ann
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