Scott, To add additional parents, just bring up the person you want to add additional parents to and right-click on either the mother or father and pick the option “Add additional parents”. A window will pop open with the current parents highlighted so you can do several things:
1. For the current parents you can change the Child Status and the relationships to the Father and Mother of the parents and privatize the relationship if needed, Edit marriage, edit father, edit mother. 2. Add New Parents (if not in your database) 3. Link to Existing Parents (if one or both are in the database) 4.Unlink from Child (if you found that the child did not belong to either of them and you need to add different parents. 5. Source the information. 6. Click the Help button which will bring up the help file for this screen. Pretty powerful screen!! Your welcome, Russ Strong From: mime Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering adoptions Hi Russ, Interesting point on adding additional parents after she was adopted. How would you do that? With thanks, Scott B -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Genealogy mail <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, January 28, 2011 4:07:47 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering adoptions Scott, Do you have any proof that Maud was William’s child? Seems strange that if she was his, that once he married, that he would leave her behind. Perhaps she was orphaned in 1881 and Elizabeth adopted her sometime between 1881 and 1891 (adoption record?). If any of this is true then she would not be listed as a child of William but rather as an adopted child of Elizabeth. You would then go into the child settings and change her status as adopted and neither parent as natural. Source the info as the 1891 census with a note of your conclusions or what ever you found out. Leave her Name as Maud Mary Bulmer with the AKAs as I previously suggested. Then if you ever find who her natural parents were then you can add additional parents and show her relationship to them. Russ Strong From: mime Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering adoptions Hoping someone can guide me thru how to enter the following information correctly. William Henry Marsh b1862 has an illegitimate child, Maud Mary Bulmer, in 1878. She appears as a boarder in the 1881 census with William, his siblings and mother, Elizabeth Marsh (a widow). In 1888 William marries and moves on, but Maud appears in the 1891 census as Maud M Marsh, daughter of William's mother, and in 1901, after Elizabeth Marsh marries Timothy Hingley, Maud appears as Maud Marsh Hingley. I sure would appreciate some help. When I try to do it, it begins to look like Elizabeth had 3 husbands and one was her son....not good! Thank you for any help, Scott B 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 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
