Jenny M Benson wrote: > Ron Ferguson wrote >> I hope that I misunderstand when you say "There needs to be a string >> that automatically removes the "someone" when an actual name is >> entered". How is a machine expected to know whether or not the >> unknown should be replaced, it could be a totally different >> relationship. > > I don't think that's a problem. When you add a child to someone, > without giving him/her a spouse it shows in Reports as "X married > someone." If you then click in the blank area for the spouse of X, > parent of the child, and enter details those details do or should > replace "Someone" on the Report. However, if you click on the > "Spouses" icon because you want to give X a new (different to the > parent of the child) spouse the child's parent shows as Unknown and > you add a second spouse. > > The machine can definitely distinguish between you adding details to > the "placeholder" for an unknown spouse and adding a new (or existing) > person as an additional spouse.
Jenny , What you say is true, and I woud add that if right click>Add Spouse is used then the unknown is also replaced, so I take your point made in the last paragraph, but *I* chose which way to enter the spouse, not the machine. The point which I was trying to make, obviously not very well, was that these selection processes, where we have the option of adding a new spouse *or* replacing an unknown must remain. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ 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
