Hi Jon, Howdy neighbor! I'm in Cannon Falls straight down the road from you :)
>From a genealogy standpoint, you record each "union". Every child has a biological father and mother. You record that father and mother as a "family." In Legacy, you record the father and mother like you would any marriage, but then click "this couple never married," change the display wording, and so on. Explain the actual situation in the notes. The end result looks a bit clunky - but it's correct. From a genealogy standpoint you want to report the correct parent/child relationships. Therefore, of course, you need to report the father/mother as a union, because the child is a result of *that* union. Any child can be recorded as having multiple parents in Legacy. Biological father, adopted father, and so on. It's tricky getting it recorded correctly, but of course that's the whole problem - it's a tricky situation! Do be sure you add notes somewhere, explaining the whole situation. Others will need those notes to make sense of the multiple overlapping relationships. Ed Barnard researching DIERLAM and BARNARD ---------- Original Message ----------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:00:33 EDT Subject: [LegacyUG] Recording out-of-wedlock children > I've a real headache and need some advice. A cousin, "Mary," had > three children out-of-wedlock with three different men whose > surnames are unknown. "Mary" then married "Mr. Jones," who adopted > just two of the three children. Then "Mary" married "Mr. Smith." > > The details of the "Smith" marriage, including children, I have. > But, what is the best procedure, i.e., data entry order, for > recording the other two relationships and the three out-of-wedlock > children, especially since I don't know the biological surnames of > the 3 children? > > Jon Raymond > St Paul Park, MN > Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/ > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp ------- End of Original Message ------- Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
