Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Chart question
Can we get it perfectly clear that Legacy Charting *will* display half kids if they are entered correctly into Legacy, in the same way that the other programs which you quote do. And in the same way incertain circumstances may actually appear twice, in, say, descendant reports, once as the descendant of the birth parent and once as the descendant of the partnership. 1/2 kids have a relationship to their adopted or step parents (to mention but 2 options) and they *must be linked* to the marriage and not just the birth parent, in other words they need to be linked twice. Their status to the non-biological parent can be entered into the relevant fields. If they are not linked then, correctly, they will *not * show. In other words there is *not* a problem with Legacy, but with how the kids are being linked. RonFerguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/ronfergy Alan Jones wrote: I was thinking that some of the other Genealogy programs out there can show 1/2 children and multiple marriages etc in charting? I can't remember but it seems like I have seen a few that do this. anyone else know? Jenny M Benson wrote: Mary Figgins wrote There is no problem showing the 1/2 children in Legacy. What I need is a chart such as descendancy that would show these children that are related by marriage and not blood. Your problem is that Legacy (and Legacy Charting) are *genealogy* programs and genealogy is based on blood relationships. You cannot have a "descendancy" chart which shows non-blood relatives because they are not descendants! Legacy will show 1/2 children because Legacy shows them as part of a family unit of parents-and-children and they are related by blood to one of the parents. (Even if you indicate a child is fostered, adopted or whatever, Legacy assumes a blood-relationship between that child and the parents in the parent position when you enter the child.) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Chart question
I was thinking that some of the other Genealogy programs out there can show 1/2 children and multiple marriages etc in charting? I can't remember but it seems like I have seen a few that do this. anyone else know? Jenny M Benson wrote: Mary Figgins wrote There is no problem showing the 1/2 children in Legacy. What I need is a chart such as descendancy that would show these children that are related by marriage and not blood. Your problem is that Legacy (and Legacy Charting) are *genealogy* programs and genealogy is based on blood relationships. You cannot have a "descendancy" chart which shows non-blood relatives because they are not descendants! Legacy will show 1/2 children because Legacy shows them as part of a family unit of parents-and-children and they are related by blood to one of the parents. (Even if you indicate a child is fostered, adopted or whatever, Legacy assumes a blood-relationship between that child and the parents in the parent position when you enter the child.) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Chart question
Mary Figgins wrote There is no problem showing the 1/2 children in Legacy. What I need is a chart such as descendancy that would show these children that are related by marriage and not blood. Your problem is that Legacy (and Legacy Charting) are *genealogy* programs and genealogy is based on blood relationships. You cannot have a "descendancy" chart which shows non-blood relatives because they are not descendants! Legacy will show 1/2 children because Legacy shows them as part of a family unit of parents-and-children and they are related by blood to one of the parents. (Even if you indicate a child is fostered, adopted or whatever, Legacy assumes a blood-relationship between that child and the parents in the parent position when you enter the child.) -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Re: Chart question
There is no problem showing the 1/2 children in Legacy. What I need is a chart such as descendancy that would show these children that are related by marriage and not blood. I should a chart to my mother and that is the first comment she made - Sunni, Kevin and Martin need to be in the chart. Mary Beth Figgins In a message dated 9/17/2009 7:18:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mbfigg...@yahoo.com writes: 1. Is it is possible to show children of previous marriages of the spouse? My sister and brother have both married people who have children by a previous marriage. Even though they are not blood relatives, these "older" children are considered part of our family. I remember my uncle have boys older than me. I just found out that they were his wife's from a previous marriage. Can a chart show these children? If not, is there some way to cleanly edit the chart to insert them? Yes, go to the family view (i.e., your sister or brother and their spouse with children). Right click on one of the children and then click on view. At the bottom, you will see "show 1/2 children." Click on that and all should be solved if you have entered the children from the first marriage. 2. It would also be great if I could do one chart, such as the hourglass, with our grandfather's ancestry on one side and grandmother's ancestry on the other. Is this possible? I will leave this one to others Howland Davis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
