Re: [LegacyUG] Design question on trees
Chuck, Search Miscellaneous Direct line ancestors with no parents will give you the top ends of the branches for all your ancestor branches - which I think is the same as your home ? --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams From: Chuck Sechler csech...@att.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 6:55 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Design question on trees I have an ancestor I have done a tree for with Legacy and I followed only male lines down. If a female married into another family name, the tree stopped for her line. so, I have one “origin”, the first person I have recorded in my family. But, if I were to follow all female lines down I would be into potentially scores of other family names (the ones the females married into). If I only follow those families down from the point at which the daughter marries into that family and all of her descendants, it all points back up the line to the original male and his wife in my tree. But if I go to a female and the family she marries into, and follow that family UP into that family, it seems I have created a tree with more than one origin point, potentially scores of origin points for all of the families the females marry into. I do not know what selecting home means anymore at that point. there are multiple homes. Is this the normal expectation? Is there a way to select different “Home” points in Legacy to follow a family down. I only have the free Legacy and so have limited “views”, such as “family”. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Design question on trees
Chuck, I am not at all clear as to what you mean when referring to the female tree. This may be because I tend to think in terms of mtDNA when considering a female tree. In my scenario the female line is always passed from mother to daughter down the line. Which is why I cannot see why you switch to a daughter's father and not her mother. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Design question on trees
I must have been very unclear in how I asked my question. It may be that it is so basic that you may think it more involved. I have been working on a family tree for over a year, but am not necessarily versed in the architectural design of trees. I start with a person male 1 - female 1 | | male 2 - wife female 2 - John Doe | | desc of male 2I do not follow down (I follow down) where the number is 1 gen, 2nd gen. I have only produced a tree that follows the MALE line down. that is, I continue to follow male 2 and his descendentants. female 2, if she married john doe, I place that into the tree, but do not follow John Doe's and female 2's line down further. I could follow female 2 and John Doe's family down from there and all would still backtrack and point up to male 1. But, what if I decided to follow John Doe's family UP. then I would be creating a tree with two origin points, the second one ending when I get as far up in John Doe's line as I can get. and, you can't get to John Doe's origin point unless you follow Male 1 down to female 2, then John Doe back UP. male 1 - female 1 ? | | | male 2 - wife female 2 - John Doe | | desc of male 2I do not follow down One question is, is following a person like John Doe back UP in a family tree proper gen tree design? or should I have a second tree covering John Doe's family , up from female 2's connection with him? Or, when I get a female offspring, like female 2, it is more proper to just follow her connections with John Doe, AT THAT POINT, DOWN? One thing that limits my view of all of this is that I have free Legacy, and I can see only a few views of my tree, family and I think Pedigree. Chuck. -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 8:49 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Design question on trees Chuck, I am not at all clear as to what you mean when referring to the female tree. This may be because I tend to think in terms of mtDNA when considering a female tree. In my scenario the female line is always passed from mother to daughter down the line. Which is why I cannot see why you switch to a daughter's father and not her mother. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Design question on trees
Chuck Sechler wrote: I have an ancestor I have done a tree for with Legacy and I followed only male lines down. If a female married into another family name, the tree stopped for her line. so, I have one “originâ€, the first person I have recorded in my family. But, if I were to follow all female lines down I would be into potentially scores of other family names (the ones the females married into). If I only follow those families down from the point at which the daughter marries into that family and all of her descendants, it all points back up the line to the original male and his wife in my tree. But if I go to a female and the family she marries into, and follow that family UP into that family, it seems I have created a tree with more than one origin point, potentially scores of origin points for all of the families the females marry into. I do not know what selecting home means anymore at that point. there are multiple homes. Is this the normal expectation? Is there a way to select different “Home†points in Legacy to follow a family down. I only have the free Legacy and so have limited “viewsâ€, such as “familyâ€. Make yourself or your son the HOME person. Then the relationships show in relation to YOU (or him) -- the person currently your HOME is your 12G GF, rather than you being his 12G GS. Making your son the HOME person still leaves you a 12G GS, but it gets all the daughters' lines and wives' lines in there too. HTH Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
