Ancestors named "unknown" was my first thought too. The can get there by
user entry, or by importing GEDCOM files.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Adams" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] End of Line Ancestors
I tried this and the first thing I noticed was no ADAMS, my primary line,
in the list. When I went to Asahel ADAMS, my earliest ancestor, on the
Family View screen, the parents block was empty. I then selected Asahel's
son Asa, my next earliest direct line ancestor. With Asa as the primary
person, Asahel appears in the parents block with a "+" at the left of his
name. This indicates that there is a parent in the database for Asahel.
When I moved Asahel into the primary location, I noticed that the icon for
parents was colored in and indicated 1 set of parents. When I clicked on
it, the pop-up screen showed parents "unknown & unknown." At the bottom of
that pop-up is a button labeled "Unlink from Child." Selecting that
deleted the unknown parents. I ran the "find direct line ancestors with no
parents" routine again and the resulting list correctly showed Asahel
ADAMS.
I'm not sure how the unknown parents got attached to Asahel, but this may
be your problem. Check the parents icon on your earliest ancestors.
Hope this helps.
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
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From: "GeoSci" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:51 AM
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LegacyUG] End of Line Ancestors
From Legacy News:
End-of-line ancestors. We all have them. We think about them. We study
them. We even dream about them. Once we find their parents, we do a
quick Genealogy Happy Dance, and then it starts over again - we now
have new end-of-line ancestors.
Who are your end-of-line ancestors? Let Legacy Family Tree identify
them for you using one of the two following methods.
Special Search List
First, in the Family View, navigate to yourself.
Click on Search > Find > Miscellaneous tab.
Select the "Direct-line ancestors with no parents" option and click on
Create List.
WELL - I did this - and quite a few of my End-of-line Ancestors ARE
NOT IN THE LIST!! There is NO McKain!! NO Horn (my maternal
Grandfather). Apparently this was a good idea - gone wrong! Ideas??
Keith
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Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry
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