Someone else already replied but I think you might be actually looking for the exact procedure, in other words, HOW do you accomplish that.
Simple. Locate the child’s name in the list of children when looking at your incorrect first marriage of the mother in the Family View. Right click on the child’s name and select “Unlink from parents”. A small window will open listing the parents and all the siblings. Just click “Yes”. That child is now a “floater” in your database. It has no parents and it has no siblings. Next go to the proper marriage of the mother (select the correct spouse) or however you want to get to viewing the correct parents in the Family View. Now right click on a blank line for a child’s name. Select “Link to an existing son/daughter”. What opens is the entire Name List. Locate the name of the child and click on Select (or double click the name). Done. Of course, what you’ll find happen is that when you get to the entire Name List, you’ll scratch your head and say “Now what was the name of that child?”. Even if you remember the name, Murphy’s Law says that you have at least three people with the same exact name and now the trick is for you to figure out which is the correct one hopefully by birth year or in a worst case scenario, temporarily exiting from your Link-to-an-existing-Son/Daughter process, and open up each name in a family view until you find the one that isn’t already connected to a family. Been there. Done that. Suggestion: before you unlink anybody from your file, make a note of the exact name and birth year so that you’ll have no difficulty in re-attaching the correct person to the correct family. Brian in CA From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Changing Parents How do you unlink a child from the mother of a first marrage to the mother of a second marriage? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
