Thank you Michele, Yes, it all made sense. When I added them to my uncle and aunt, in the family view they went from showing as ½ kids to showing nothing after their name. Doing it that way I thought they were going to show up twice in the family view, but they did not.
I added the correct relationships for all of the parents, but what would you put for child status in my uncles marriage so it correctly reflects their status? Adopted implies by both parents. This is not something that has come up for me before so appreciate your imput. Thanks again, Rita in South Carolina From: Michele Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] new biological father You can link the children to both families. Just add a child to your uncle’s marriage to this woman. Right click in the list of children area. Use the option “link to an existing son (or daughter).” After you have linked the two children, right click on one of their names (while still in the family view with your uncle and his wife as the family view couple). Click on “children’s settings” On this page you can change their relationship to their father and mother. You can now put them as the adopted children of the uncle and biological to the mother. On the family view for the woman that your uncle married and her first husband, do the same thing. Now you can mark their biological father as their biological father. In summary, the two children will show up as children in two different families. In the first marriage of the woman they will show up as the biological child of the husband and wife. In the family group of the woman’s 2nd marriage, they will show up as the wife’s biological children but as the adoptive children of her 2nd husband. I hope that all made sense. Michele From: Rita Lynn McKale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] new biological father I am struggling with how to get this right and how it will look in the family view. My uncle married a woman with two children from a prior marriage. He adopted them. I have just learned the name of the biological father (my aunt’s 1st husband). I have unlinked the children from my uncle and linked them the 1st marriage. Now, how do I add them to my uncle and show they were adopted by him. Right now they are showing as ½ kids in the family view. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina 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
