Heather, Please see my response to the OP. When there are more than one unknown fathers it is necessary to specifically use the name "Unknown" (or anything else) for *both* unknowns.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:03:17 -0500 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] half siblings do not show in all family views > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I have seen this happen in my file too - and I am 95% sure I reported it, but > I might not have. (And when I say reported it - I mean to support.) > > I have a woman who had some kids illigit - and I don't know the father. Then > she married and had a few more. (just to make it more complicated, he was > married before and had kids before too.... but that doesn't affect this.) He > died, and then a number of years later, she had another child - and the only > place a father is mentioned, it is the long-deceased husband.... so it > appears that he was illigit too. > > > I don't use people named unknown - I just let the program put in unknown. > > So I have the first children linked to mom, with an auto-generated unknown > father. > Then the next children linked to her and her husband > > The last child linked to mom, with a different auto-generated unknown father. > > When viewing the family with the mom and either of the unknown fathers, the > children of the other unknown father are not shown. They all show up > correctly when viewing the family of the mom and her husband. > > > As I only have this situation once in my own files, and it is a family I am > working with a lot, I just remember the little bug. To me it is more of an > annoyance than anything, as I find the show 1/2 kids as a huge bonus I had > never expected or had in any other program i have used. > > > These people were entered a LONG time ago, so I don't remember the order I > used to enter them or link them - but I'm not sure that matters. > > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Thena Jones> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Not all of the half-siblings appear in children's lists of the mother's 5 > > Family Views. I have selected to "show 1/2 kids." This is a complicated > > family and I hope I am clear about this. > > > > (I am using version 7.0.0.109, on Windows Vista.) > > > When I bring up the mother's Spouse list and select either of the entries > > for "unknown", one of the children - one of the 2 daughters - disappears > > from the children list. > > _________________________________________________________________ Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
