Tagging blood line descendants might be complicated in a file with multiple parents for the same child. The Legacy sample file has two sets of parents of Asa Brown with different names. Legacy imports PAF files with multiple child-marriage relationships left blank. A different genealogy program may allow only one default relationship assumed to be the bio mother and one default relationship assumed to be the bio father.
"Preferred" parents of a blended family (his kids, her kids, their kids) may be set for a particular descendant report or chart but the ancestor chart for a non-bio child would be inaccurate. Legacy allows sources for each child-parent relationship but those are lost in GEDCOM transfers to non-Legacy programs. The sources were also lost in GEDCOM transfers back to Legacy 5 version on the program CD and a few of the early builds when that feature was added. The sample file has research notes for Asa that refer to Nathan Brown as father. It is also necessary to know that Legacy 4, 5 and 6 Relationship Charts sometimes omit one genearation, a blood line descendant. Some genealogy software reports "siblings" with one common parent and "first cousins" with one common grandparent. If the common male ancestor of two individuals was married more than twice, Legacy's Relationship Chart for descendants of first and last marriage omits a blood descendant on one side when the descendant names are swapped. During one of the recent USA elections, the family history of one individual was posted to a web site with a generation of ancestors missing. This could happen in a file with grandparents shown as "parents" in a chart used for reference or a source such as a census with non-bio parents listed as parents. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron > Is there an easy method to tag all bloodline descendants of a given > person? Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
