For some reason, Ron's message never came through to me. But to answer his request that I make it a suggestion, I've already done so. When I accidentally attempt to crop a picture in Photoshop without selecting an area, Photoshop is smart enough to bring up a window that says "No Pixels Selected". I should think that Legacy should be smart enough to realize that the user has not entered any data whatsoever about a marriage yet is requesting a SAVE operation. Legacy should bring up a window saying something along the lines of "No data has been entered but a marriage link is about to be created --- CONTINUE or CANCEL." (Note that this should only appear when there is no data entered at all.)
And to answer Evert's remarks about using different names or initials for the "unknown persons". That's a good idea if there really is a person in your file with a name of "Unknown". But that's one of the problems with the accidental creation of a marriage link --- No person with the name "unknown" is created. In fact, no person is created at all. There is no additional person added to the Name List and there is no additional "Unknown" created. It's a problem of the creation of a marriage link only and not of a unknown person. There are probably many users who have these "ghost marriages" yet they have no "Unknown" names in their Name List. There is no name or RIN created thus Legacy uses the term "someone" whenever certain types of reports are created. To my knowledge, that is the only way of finding out about such "ghost marriages" assuming that the user has turned off the special symbol display on the Family View or doesn't know what the special symbol alongside the name means. Brian in CA > -----Original Message----- > From: Evert van Dijken [mailto:evandij...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:03 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 -- Young Children have Unknown > Spouse > > That's why I always use N.N. N.N. (others use different names i.e. > [.?.] ) for an unknown person so any Unknowns in the Marriage list (or > Name list) could be ghost spouses (or individuals) and should be > checked. > Evert > > 2010/6/8 Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk>: > > Brian, > > > > No, I do not consider it to be a bug. I have known that it happens > for > > years, and from time to time we get these "ghost" marriages cropping > up on > > LUG. BTW on my setup, in the case of a multiple marriage, spotting it > would > > be even more difficult than you suggest as I do not "X married > somone", > > simply "X married". So I am very careful with the Marriage Screen!! > > > > I have wondered, on and off, for a long time how this might be > changed, but > > cannot come up with anything because Legacy allows a spouse to be > blank, and > > I want it to stay that way. If you can make a suggestion why not > submit it > > as an enhancement? > > > > Ron Ferguson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
