Because Legacy creates for the screen only, a person 'named Unknown', you can find them all quickly. Go to Marr List, choose either the column for husband or wife, hit the button 'first', and all the empty people show up alphabetically in front of the letter 'A', which helps you find those that are missing, or need more research. If you have entered 'Unknown' in the name field, that person will show up in the letter 'U' instead. You may need to check both first name and surname for each sex to find all. You can also tag on them for future work. This way you don't need to add numbers to names or other workarounds. This way you can FIND all, and decide what to do about it. I found I had some marriages with 'blank' and 'blank' as spouses, which I deleted the meaningless (to me) record. Hope this hels Rich in LA CA
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Brian L. Lightfoot <br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: > From: Brian L. Lightfoot <br...@the-lightfoots.com> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 -- Young Children have Unknown Spouse > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 10:02 AM > 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 > > > > 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
