[LegacyUG] Step/Adopted Children and Charting
When my wife and I married, I adopted her daughter from my wife's previous marriage. I show my adopted daughter as '1/2' in the program, as I believe the instructions indicate. My problem is that when I do a chart, I would like to include her and my grandchildren. How can I accomplish this? The Legacy help files do not address this issue - at least I haven't found it and would appreciate some guidance. 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] Step/Adopted Children and Charting
SgtBob wrote: When my wife and I married, I adopted her daughter from my wife's previous marriage. I show my adopted daughter as '1/2' in the program, as I believe the instructions indicate. My problem is that when I do a chart, I would like to include her and my grandchildren. How can I accomplish this? The Legacy help files do not address this issue - at least I haven't found it and would appreciate some guidance. The likely reason is that although you have shown your adopted child as a 1/2 kid you have not linked her to your marriage. But it would seem that you have her linked to yourself. If so, unlink her from yourself and then, in family View, add her as you would any other biological child; ie. click on the kids bit and select "Link to an existing child". Reset the adopted relationship to yourself. This will mean that your daughter will appear twice, once as the daughter of your wife's previous marriage, and once as your daughter. This is standard for all such relationships. Check also in the marriage list that you are not left with a ghost marriage to an unknown. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ 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] Step/Adopted Children and Charting
Yes, in my reply to your first post that is exactly what I meant by appearing twice. She does, correctly, have two sets of parents even if one of the individual parents is duplicated. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ SgtBob wrote: Thanks Ron - She now appears on my family view as my daughter with the adopted status in the settings, but she also appears as '1/2' - is this normal? Bob Ron Ferguson wrote: SgtBob wrote: When my wife and I married, I adopted her daughter from my wife's previous marriage. I show my adopted daughter as '1/2' in the program, as I believe the instructions indicate. My problem is that when I do a chart, I would like to include her and my grandchildren. How can I accomplish this? The Legacy help files do not address this issue - at least I haven't found it and would appreciate some guidance. The likely reason is that although you have shown your adopted child as a 1/2 kid you have not linked her to your marriage. But it would seem that you have her linked to yourself. If so, unlink her from yourself and then, in family View, add her as you would any other biological child; ie. click on the kids bit and select "Link to an existing child". Reset the adopted relationship to yourself. This will mean that your daughter will appear twice, once as the daughter of your wife's previous marriage, and once as your daughter. This is standard for all such relationships. Check also in the marriage list that you are not left with a ghost marriage to an unknown. Ron Ferguson 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