On 2010/04/12 19:14, Brian/Support wrote: > Yes there is a way but it is a bit of a work around that will leave > the person with an unknown spouse. Use CTRL-N to create a new > unlinked individual. Name them Previous CHILD. Click on the mother or > father section for Previous CHILD, select link to an existing person > and link this child to the person who you know was married before. > This step will create a marriage between the person who was married > and an unknown spouse. You can now delete Previous CHILD. Go to the > person who was married and you will see they now have 2 spouses. Open > the spouse list and you will see they have the known and unknown > spouses listed. Select the unknown spouse and you can edit the > marriage to indicate that it occurred before the second marriage > whose details you know. Now you will be able to sort the marriages so > that the unknown spouse is the first marriage.
Then, look at Options--> Customise--> Data Format and the 'Word for Blank Records' option. You can either have the unknown show up as 'Unknown' or appear blank. That solves the problem for those people that don't like seeing too many 'Unknowns' in their lists. -- 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
