Thank you Heather for that excellent explanation. I would just add that the decision of whether to have a child linked to two sets of parents depends upon who you want to show on the Family Group Sheets. If you want your father's daughter to be shown on the same FGS as you (as well as on the FGS for your father and HER mother) then you want her linked to your father and YOUR mother as well as to your father and HER mother. Hope that isn't confusing.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Heather Stovold <[email protected]> wrote: > You need for these cases to make a "marriage" for the couple that were not > married, but had kids together. On the marriage screen for them, you check > mark "This couple never married" - there are places to setup the wording for > reports and stuff. > > So for your father, you put in your sister's mother's information, and then > link her as a spouse to your father. On the marriage screen, checkmark that > they never married. (Think of the marriage in Legacy as meaning "had a > relationship" with if that works better for you... Then, on the family > view, showing this couple as the family - tell it to add a child - then tell > it to add an existing person as the child - then select your sister. It > will warn you that she already has parents - choose to add her anyway. > > Now you have a choice, and there is no right or wrong answer. You can now > "unlink" her from your parents - or you can set the parent status for her > and your mother to "step-parent" (or other appropriate). - in that case, > she will have 2 sets of parents (similar to adopted people who trace both > their adopted and their biological parents.) > > Finally, you can on the family view click on the children with your right > mouse button - and select view - 1/2 children (this is by memory - it might > be worded differently.) You will then on the screen see kids of other > marriages of a parent on the screen with a 1/2 before them, and in brackets > which was the parent. Note that this isn't the standard meaning of 1/2 > siblings - it just means that this child had 1 of the parents shown, and a > different parent than the parents shown. If you kept your sister linked > to your parents, she will show up twice. This isn't a bug as she has 2 sets > of parents. > > Do the same type of thing for your children. > > Hope this helps! > > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Sharon Harley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> Dear Legacy Users Group, >> >> I have a problem with adding a person to the family tree. My father had >> a daughter before he married my >> mother, and I can't seem to get my sister's mother's >> name added to the family tree. On the listing it shows >> my mother and father as her parents and not her mother and my father as >> her parents. How can I correct the family tree. My sister's mother and my >> father never married. I also have the same problem >> with my children my first two children were by my >> ex-husband and I had two other children by someone >> else, but we never married. >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> MARY S. HARLEY >> [email protected] >> > > > 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 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
