Thanks, Ron. I don't generally, but I'm starting to do some research for a friend, and I don't know how "deep" it will go or how long I will work on it. Just tried to enter the 3 generations I know to get a skeleton family file and ran into this "snag" first thing--! --Paula
________________________________ From:Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> To:[email protected] Sent: Fri, April 27, 2012 10:32:42 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Viewing step children Paula, May I counsel against using the Child Status in this way i.e. to show child-parent relationship. The reason being that should you wish to use the Privacy Controls not to show, say step or adoption, you could at some stage hit problems. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ "Paula Ryburn" <[email protected]> wrote: >Yes, Jan, I have all that. I think the problem is that the "view 1/2" and child >status and relationship-to-parent don't all work well together--or at least seem >to not work well together to show what I would like to show. > >For example, the "1/2" showed next to the step children before/until I linked >them to the step-father and entered "Step" in their relationship-to-father field >for that marriage (the wife's second marriage). >For example, the relationship-to-father "Step" cannot be displayed in the >children list, only the child status can be. >For example, if I enter "Stepchild" as a child status, it shows up without >indicating stepchild to which parent, so I have to put the less generic >"Stepchild of father" in the child status (and decide do I really want to see >all that on the screen, in reports, etc---could make it "private" but then why >enter it in the first place, etc). > >This is not a huge deal to me---it does not occur often---so I'll just leave it >with nothing special showing in the children list and "Step" in the >relationship-to-father if I right-click on either child and view the children's >settings, and turn off the printing of it if it seems inappropriate to show in a >given report (depends on audience). > >Thanks all! > --Paula > > > > >________________________________ > 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
