Legacy has always added an "unknown" spouse to a single parent whenever
you link that person to a child. This goes back as far as Legacy 2.0
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Thanks.
clshee...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ron (and Rich),
Well, I guess that's what I get for not reading the "Complicated Family" thread yet.
In retrospect, I must have tried to link the father (already in my database, but linked to no one) to the daughter (in my database with many descendants) before I added his wife. I didn't notice if Unknown had an RIN; I do know when I finally looked at the spouses icon in the lower left of the Family View it showed him with two wives: Unknown and the real one with a name..
I still think this is a relatively new (and silly) way for Legacy to behave..
I've been using it for years, and can't imagine this is the first time I would
have encountered this situation. (Maybe I just lucked out and did it correctly
before?).
Reminder to Self: If you link a child to a "single" parent, Legacy creates an
Unknown spouse even when you think you've told it not to. If you know the other parent's
name, be sure to enter it before you link the child!
Thanks to both of you for your help!
Connie
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, ronald ferguson <ronfe...@msn.com> wrote:
Connie,
Rich clarified this in a post only a few days ago. You are
not actually creating "unknown people" as the have no RINs.
As I commented in the same thread, Legacy will always create
an unkown to a single parent as it takes two to have a
child, but this will appear only on the marriage screens
provided you have chosen the "blank" option in
Options>customise>Data Format.
Ron Ferguson
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:09:23 -0700
From: clshee...@yahoo.com
Ron,
Yes, I was attempting to link 2 people who were
already in the database as father and daughter. And, I was
adding the mother who had not previously been in the
database. I thought that was what I said; sorry if I wasn't
clear.
Unfortunately I don't remember the exact sequence I
used. But my point being, regardless of the sequence I used,
"Unknown" parents and "Unknown" spouses (i.e. 4th and
perhaps 5th "people" named "unknown," not the 3 I was
dealing with) were automatically created by Legacy without
my knowledge. And were darn hard to unlink and delete....
Connie
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, ronald ferguson wrote:
Connie,
...or do you mean that in Family View you try to
add an
existing child?
Ron Ferguson
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:59:18 -0700
From: clshee...@yahoo.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing
Unknown
Spouses and Parents
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
I know this topic has been discussed several
times
before, in one manner or another, but I can't come
up with
the proper search terms to find what I need in
the
Archives.
Yesterday, I attempted to link two individuals
who
were already in my database as father and
daughter. The
father was in my database as a totally unlinked
person (no
parents, no children, no siblings, no spouse). The
daughter
was an "end-of-the-line" ancestor with many
descendants.
As best as I can remember the sequence I used,
I first
added a new, named wife to the father, then
attempted to
link them to the daughter. But I might have
started with
trying to link him to the daughter before entering
a wife's
name. In any event, it took several minutes of
errors
stating things like "She is already linked to
these parents"
(which she most certainly was not), or, "she
already has
parents, do you want to link to another set of
parents?"
before I discovered there was a phantom "unknown"
spouse for
the father. I then thought it should be a simple
matter of
unlinking the daughter from this phantom marriage,
deleting
the unknown spouse/marriage, and relinking to the
proper
named parents, but that didn't work either without
several
tries. In one case, the "unknown" spouse was
deleted and
magically reappeared again.
What is causing these "Unknown" spouses to
appear? Is
there any way to prevent it? In checking my
Marriage List, I
see I not only have several phantom spouses, I
have some
Unknown to Unknown parents of some end-of-the line
ancestors
that I certainly never added.
This seems to have started in a relatively
recent
version (maybe from 6.0 to 7.0?) Is this not a
"bug"?????
(It is certainly annoying).
Thanks,
Connie
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