Thanks, Brian, That worked fine, though I surely did have a hard time
finding those tiny M F buttons on the Edit screen, especially as they looked
sort of grayed out. The Help directions called them "radio buttons" -- what
on earth is a RADIO button?? or why on earth are they called radio buttons??
I was afraid I wouldn't be able to open legacy or the file but had no
problem with either.
Thanks so much!!
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File maintenance, gender
To change the gender of a person you have to first unlink them from a
marriage so they are single.
Go to your first cousin and the incorrect gender husband. Note any
information you have on their marriage (this will get lost and you will
have to re-enter it).
Right click on him and select Unlink from spouse.
Now in the name list find him and select him.
On his edit screen you can now change him to a male.
Now you should be able to link him back to his spouse and all will be
well. You will have to re-enter any marriage information though.
To Link him to the spouse find the spouse (if there were children she
should still be linked to them so it is better to start from her than from
him) right click in the spouse area and select add spouse, when offered
use the link to existing person, select the husband from the name list
that opens and then fill in the marriage details.
Brian
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Thanks.
Patricia Hickin wrote:
On my lapstop, on which I have not yet upgraded Legacy from Deluxe 6.0__?
to the latest version, I did a Potential problems check ca a week ago and
have been correcting everything I could since then. Last night I did a
File Maintenace check and only got one error -- namely a first cousin's
husband on his parent's family page showed him up as female (i.e., in
red--my women are red, not black--I don't know why). This is a file I
imported several months ago as a gedcom from an FTM 10 file and having
been using without problems since. He was in the correct (I.e., husband)
position when I did an edit.
I used Help but could not understabnd the directions for gender change.
So I simply put him in again as a new son and entered the little data
that I had. Then I deleted the original (red) husband/son. But after
that when I did an edit he and/or the new son showed up in the WIFE
position and I couldn't link him to a wife.
So I used the View, Name list and went to my first cousin (Bessie) and
there she is showing MULTIPLE husbands (she was only married once) and
when I clicked on the husbands icon, it wouldn't open and I got some kind
of message about individual #1523 (not the MRIN, which was 414 I think).
I can't remember if I attempted to edit her -- if I did the husband field
was blank, though the husbnd icon showed multiple husbands,
By this time Legacy was totally frozen and I could not maneuver around in
it. I couldn't even exit it, though I was able to click on File, Exit --
but nothing happened. I could click on the x in the red box and close
it -- it didnot ask if I wanted to back up.
Fortunately I had backed up the file before I did the File Maintenance
Check/Repair.
So my questions:
1. what should I do next? (please just tell me what to click
on--otherwise I simply cannot follow the directions--sorry!)
2. how do I change the gender (again, please tell me what to click on)?
3. why on earth did deleting somebody cause such problems and why was he
still there (apparently) in my first cousin Bess's files?
4. Why did he not show up as a potential problem instead of on eht File
Maintenance Check/Repair.
THANKS FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE ME!
Pat
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