The default for Mother and Father rel is natural, indicating that they are the natural parents of the child. If the child was adopted, that would show in the relationship.
If you right click on a child and select children's settings, you will see some boxes at the bottom of the window where you can set these relationships. Normally they are not used. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > Deborah Trounstine said the following on 2009/12/19 03:36: > > In the "Assigned Sources for:" window, near the bottom of the list are: > > "Child Status: > > Father rel: > > Mother rel:" > > What are Father rel and Mother rel? > > AND why does my source window show: > > "Marr: Flo Williams > > Had no children: Flo Williams > > Did not marry: Flo Williams > > Mar Notes: Flo Williams" > > Flo Williams WAS married and had 13 children - all of the info for her > > parents, siblings, husband, marriage and kids are entered and show up on > > reports properly. > > What are these used for? Are there some sources that I should be > > assigning to these? > > Most of these do not actually exist. They're 'potential events/facts'. If > you > look at the rest of the row for each of these items, you'll see columns for > Source List Name, Detail and Y. Entries in these columns are what determine > whether the events exits or not. When you cite a source for a fact, entries > will be placed in these other columns. > > Most of them are self-explanatory - or should be - once you know what the > abbreviations stand for. > > rel = relationship > Marr = married (one per spouse) > > Because the events 'Had No Children', 'Did not Marry' etc. do *not* have a > citation, they don't exist. At least, not as far as reports are concerned. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg > > > > 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
