Jan - Thank you so much for your reply to my request for help. At least now I know it is not me. I can quit racking my brain on how to deal with step-children. I am like you, I feel that the step-children are part of our family history and should be included.
Thanks you again. This was my first try at using the Legacy Group and I am impressed!! Sandy K Keas > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Step-children > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 13:36:09 +1000 > > I doubt you are doing anything incorrectly – unfortunately it is a facet of > Legacy. You are right in that linking the children to your cousin’s current > marriage is the only way they will show on reports (this is because they are > not blood descendants, but I like to use Legacy to record family history, not > pure genealogy) BUT they will be out of order as you have seen. However, at > least Legacy gives us the option of showing (in reports too) the status of > the children so there is no confusion. And yes, they WILL show as THEIR > children, but if you have selected to show Child Status (NOTE: Child Status, > not Relationship to Parents) this will be visible. (If you like you can > create your own Child Status such as Step-child of Joe BLOGGS, or even be > more specific and put Step-son – or daughter – of ….) If you also show ½ > siblings they will show up twice. In my case I prefer not to show ½ siblings, > leaving the child status labels to clear up any misunderstanding. > Unfortunately what we need is for the show ½ siblings setting (which doesn’t > only show true blood ½ siblings, but any children of both partners) to be > reflected, and printed, in reports. That would remove the need to link the > children to both marriages. > If you link the children to your cousin’s current marriage you should be able > to order them as you would a list of natural children. My step-children are > older than my own daughter, and I have them in the correct order on the > Family View, and they print in the correct order It is only when you show ½ > kids that they will be out of order. > > Cheers > Jan > From: sandy keas [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2011 12:43 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Step-children > > HELP!! I have been using Legacy for several years and REALLY like it but I > have one thing that I have not figured out. I am not sure of how to handle > step-children correctly. > > My cousin has 2 children of her own (by 2 different husbands) and 3 > step-children that belong to her third husband. When I am looking at the > Family screen, all of her children show up with their fathers listed in > prefaces but none of the step-children. If I click on her third husband, his > children show up with their mother's name in prefaces. I thought the way to > fix this was to set his childrens' relationship to her as step, but that did > not get the desired results. (Also when I try to use the blue drop-down > arrows in the relationship field, I get a run time error that shuts Legacy > down. Anyone know why??) After I set his children as her step-children, they > show up as if they are THEIR children. What do I have set incorrectly?? > > Along the same lines - I use the Book - Descendents - Narrative to print my > family information and this does not include the step-children at all, until > I linked them to their father and my cousin as their parents, but then it > shows them out of birth order (the step-children are older than her children > and they are listed after her children). > > PLEASE, PLEASE someone tell me what I am doing incorrectly. > > Thanks in advance!!! > > Sandy K Keas > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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