The best way would be to just add the father's surnames and leave the first
names and spouses blank or use privacy brackets ie [[this is the father of
John Smith]]. If you start putting initials in for N.N. no name then it is
very likely that some one else researching will see that and start looking
for someone with those initials. I have been there and done that! For the
life of me I could not find all those people with the surname of UNK who was
in my database from an import that had been done when I first started out!!
So for unknown information it is best to leave it blank or insert those
privacy brackets as that is what keeps them private and not published.
To create the cousin, go to John Smith and add father, and enter him with
just the Surname and then go to him and repeat. You are now at the
grandfathers screen. You should now see him with no spouse with one mail
child, now just click in the children list box to add another male child.
This is where privacy brackets come in handy to separate the first names ie
[[child1]] and [[child2]] which will pop up a warning that you can tell it
to ignore. Note this will put an * in the exceptions box near the bottom of
the screen once you have a name for them don't forget to edit that box to
correct the exception.
Now navigate down by going to the new child and adding another male child
for David's father. Go to his father now Add Child and link to existing
person David. You now have the cousins linked.
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hayes
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:46 AM
To: Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to enter the following.
On 24 Feb 2016 at 17:24, June wrote:
I have all people EXCEPT David Smith. I canTMt work out how to put him on
making him the first cousin of Simon Smith because I donTMt have either
David or SimonTMs parents.
Then you use placeholders for their parents and grandparents.
Since it seems likely that their fathers, at least, had the surname of
Smith,
you enter something like N.N. Smith for the father of one, and Mrs N.N.
Smith
for his wife. And N.M. Smith for the parents of the other, and Mrs N.M./
Smith as his wife. And for the parents of those two smiths you put Grandpa
Smith and Grandma Smith.
And then, voila! David and Simon are cousins.
And when you do find the real names, you substitute them for the placeholder
names.
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Keep well,
Steve Hayes
Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm
E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk
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