Paula: If you click on the book icon for any individual you'll get a list of Assigned Sources. Provided there are parents listed for the person, you'll see lines for Relationship to Father and Relationship to Mother. There you can add any sources that support the relationship. This stands out fairly well in reports produced by Legacy, but it doesn't seem to transfer in a GEDCOM (the outdated GEDCOM format simply may not have tags for these fields).
To avoid having information about an unproven relationship lost or buried among source notes, I have a generic Master Source simply titled NOTE: I use that with text added such as "John's relationship to parents is speculative based on . . ." That note is attached to the individual's Name field (as well as to the relationship fields) and I always leave it as the top source citation there so that it transfers with GEDCOMs and is readily apparent to anyone who reads the source notes in a report. Needless to say, I don't use this method frivously but I do a good deal of work with others on a geographically-limited one-name study and a certain amount of speculation is sometimes appropriate there. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship field where? was: Possible link to a family I realize the original post is old, but I have just re-subscribed and am trying to "catch up"...?! What caught my eye was the mention of "the Relationship field(s)" in Kristen's post below. I don't believe I've heard of this field for an Individual before. Can someone enlighten me? (I've checked Help. I'm on v 7.5.0.40.) I do have a parentage that is questionable, so this field could be useful to me. Right now I just have a note in ALL CAPS in the Research Notes field. (Now that I'm re-reading Kirsten's post, I'm not sure what she means by "add a note to the Name field" either... ?) Thanks in advance, --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams ________________________________ From: Kirsten Bowman <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 11:54:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Possible link to a family Jane: Most of the time I create a new folder for the person in XP and that's where I stick all the relevant information and notes until something clicks. These are all kept in a Stray folder under the appropriate surname. With a few, when I'm pretty sure where they go due to circumstantial evidence, I attach them and >>>>> add a note to the Name field saying that the link is tentative. I could put that note in >>>>>>>>>> the Relationship field(s), but then it's buried in a string of source notes and I like to have it at the very top. Kirsten 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
