To be honest, I can't remember. My usual practice is to enter 'Unknown UNKNOWN' when I know from other evidence that a marriage existed, but I don't know the name of the spouse. If I then determine the name I simply change unknown to the correct name - not really any different to changing a spelling error. And because I have entered 'Unknown UNKNOWN' (which for all the computer knows is a real name) I should never get Fred married someone. However, on reviewing my sources etc. this morning for this particular case (and the superfluous someone is still there in a report newly created this morning, after a complete shutdown overnight) I believe this particular marriage would have been entered WITHOUT an unknown spouse at any stage i.e. the spouse has never been unknown. So the mystery really deepens. I have tried creating the report for Screen/Printer; pdf and rtf. The someone appears in every case. It appears even when the starting person is different - but seemingly only for this couple. I am producing quite a few reports at the moment and haven't found it happening anywhere else. I tried what Jennifer suggested re unlinking the couple and relinking to no effect. I think I'll call it 'just one of those things' and move on. Thanks for trying to help, everyone.
Cheers Jan -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2010 23:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Married 'Someone' How did you add the new partner? The method used is critical - see previous posts in this thread. 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 ____________________________________________________ mbstx wrote: > I have the same problem in a report I just generated. What I don't > understand is when there is a blank for the given name or surname, > but I know the other, and later I add the new information into the > same person's data fields, why would there still be an unknown? > Marianne > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> >> Sent: May 20, 2010 2:41 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Married 'Someone' >> >> I have a multitude of unknown spouses, which I wish to leave as >> blank. V7 now seems to be able to do this, although I have found an >> odd instance where "unknown" still appears, and have yet to work out >> why. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> >> CE Wood wrote: >>> I think she is asking why the program doesn't correct its mistake. >>> As one gathers more information, there will always be spouses >>> discovered. There needs to be a string that automatically removes >>> the "someone" when an actual name is entered. >>> >>> Correcting one marriage is not the issue. Correcting them ALL is >>> ridiculous. >>> >>> Legacy did say this error had been fixed. I guess not, huh? >>> >>> >>> CE >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jennifer Crockett [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:30 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Married 'Someone' >>> >>> I once had this happen to me. What I finally came up with to fix it >>> was to unlink the couple and then re-link them. I did this using the >>> Marriage List. >>> >>> Jennifer >>> >>> >>> From: Jan Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2010 9:18 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [LegacyUG] Married 'Someone' >>> >>> I have just been reading through a report I created yesterday (after >>> having converted pdf to doc, edited – or so I thought – resaved >>> as pdf, uploaded to my newly created wiki!) and have noticed that I >>> have the ubiquitous Fred married someone Mary Jane BROWN. I >>> thought this problem had been resolved some time ago. Originally I >>> had an unknown wife for Fred, but recently added a name. Obviously >>> the someone is a hangover from when her name was unknown. How does >>> one resolve this problem other than having to read through every >>> report word for word once it has been created. At the moment I >>> tend to rely on Word’s spelling error identifier to check for >>> spelling errors, as well as making any additions or deletions that >>> I know I need – I’d prefer not to have to check the wording of >>> every marriage statement just in case the extraneous ‘someone’ >>> is in place. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jan 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
