stan megraw wrote: > I have a number of individuals where one or both of the parents are > not known. In the Descendant Report, the text reads "son of Unknown > and Unknown". I know I can correct this by unlinking the child for > the unknown parent(s). But I have 2 questions: > > 1. If I know the father, but not the mother, is it possible to > correct "son of Robert Smith and Unknown" without unlinking the > father and then re-linking him? > > 2. Since I have a number of these, is there a way in Legacy to unlink > many at once? > > Stan
Stan, Check that under Customise>Options>Data Format and make sure that you have "just leave blank" for Word for Blank Records. Now that is what you should do, but as I've pointed out to Legacy many times there is a bug and it does not work. It is a pain in the neck and also affects webpages, so all you can do for reports is to have 3 runs through a word processor to get rid of all of them, Use search and replace in your WP to delete " and unknown", then "unknown and " and then ""unknown" do not use quotes but please note the spaces. Similarly use an html editor for webpages. In my view this is an important bug, which ruins reports and webpages, or causes quite a bit of extra work. Quite unsatisfactory. Unlinking will not work as you will lose your descendants. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ 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
