Funny, that's what my grandmother's obit said. I didn't believe it.

Wm Voss

On 12-Aug-11 4:38 PM, Jim Terry/Support wrote:
> Marianne,
>
> I have seen obituaries that explicity stated that a person had been married
> for a number of years, but never had children. Using newspaper obituary as
> a source might save some in the future from looking for non-existant
> children. But I agree, I would probably information to Notes and add the
> citation to the note.
>
> There are lots of ways to handle such situations. Legacy lets the user
> decide how they prefer to do it.
>
> Jim
> Legacy Family Tree
> Technical Support
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: "mbstx"<[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:29 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: re: [LegacyUG] Events Listing Confusion
>>
>> However, how do you "source" a negative, that is a non-event?  I handle
> "didn't marry" and "had no children" with an explanation in the General
> Notes as to why I think that is so.  Marianne
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jim Terry/Support<[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Aug 12, 2011 4:25 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: re: [LegacyUG] Events Listing Confusion
>>>
>>> Jerry,
>>>
>>> If I recall correctly we added "Had No Children" and "Did Not Marry" to
> the
>>> list of possible events that users could an a source to because  some
> of
>>> our users wanted it. They pointed out there was a need to document the
> fact
>>> that a couple did not ever marry or that they did not ever have
> children.
>>> Jim Terry
>>> Legacy Family Tree
>>> Technical Support
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> From: "Jerry"<[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 1:45 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: [LegacyUG] Events Listing Confusion
>>>>
>>>> I think this subject came up once before, but I still don't
> understand
>>>> the rationale behind having a list of events which states "Had No
>>>> Children"  - "Did Not Marry", etc., when, in fact, they were married
> and
>>>> did have children.   I realize this is just a list of possible
> events,
>>>> but doesn't it seem like a bit of strange programming logic?
> Anyone
>>>> else with me and know to what I am referring?     Open up the source
>>>> listing and you will find the list there.  Thanks,  --Jerry in
> Michigan
>>>> / http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org
>>>>
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