Ron Taylor wrote: > The cases you are talking about all have 2 parents, even if > sometimes we don't wish to record one of them. The case I > described only has 1 parent. The best solution I have found so far > is to enter "Adopted by Single Parent" in the spouse record to make > it clear that there will not be a second parent/spouse found for > the marriage record. I might also mark that fictional person as > "private" and "invisible" but other than those procedures, there is > no method in the Legacy database tables to record these single > parent adoptions.
Every child must have two parents, except in very rare cases where the mother is asexual. Even an IVF child has two parents although the donor father may be unknown. In the instance I mentioned, no, there were not two known parents. There was only the adoptive one, just as you have. You've done what I've done except I put "None" in the given name field and "CHILD ADOPTED" in the surname field. The adopted child's birth parents were and remain unknown. I didn't consider marking the entry as "private". It's not something I use. In the case of illegitimate children, the father isn't always known or named, so it would be better to be able to leave that field totally blank and not to have it assigned to a non existent or otherwise unknown "husband". There are instances where a girl is raped by a stranger whose name would not be known. Legacy is very flexible for the most part but less so where non standard relationships are involved. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk 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
