Hi Wendy, Thanks, but my problem is the need for links to be able to use the facilities built into Legacy. For my mother's line case, I'd like to run descendant charts etc. from John of ~1520 to include our family line, all early relatives in Devon, the famous Camden Pratt line and its branch through Winston Churchill. I don't see how to do that without an even bet of making an error which might get published. Similarly, to display together pieces of genealogy which provably connect by DNA but lack specific linking individuals requires some linkage mechanism to use or trick the software - can't do it with someone unrelated and it's worse with research where most of the pieces actually will prove unrelated.
Another simple case is a line headed by someone with a sibling. The only ways I know to generate a descendancy chart/report including both is to use a phantom father as a placeholder, and run from him, or the multiple lines of descent run from both. Regards, and thanks again for thinking about this, kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Howard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:10:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Bridging Gaps Hi kb, > Does Legacy offer a general way to bridge gaps from > missing individuals or discontinuity in information? You can add individuals to your database that are not linked to other people - Add > New Unlinked Individual or <Ctrl><N>. When the day comes that you can connect that unlinked person to someone else in your database you can do that, by adding an existing person (in your database, that is) as a parent, child or spouse. By having these unlinked person(s) in your database, you can see them in the Name List as well as in the various "views", so are easily found when you need them. But they're not connected to your - or any other - family until you are ready for that to happen. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> 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
