As posted on the aus-legacy website, this is what I have done. Enter both partners in male and female positions in Family View.
You now need to change one partner’s gender, for instance the one designated Female that you want to change to Male. Click the marriage information bar for the pair and remove “replace wife’s married name with husband’s surname”. Go to wording options and replace Husband and Wife on the first line (Family View) for Male and Male (or Female and Female). Then override the middle section of the next line that reads “married “ with “has (or had) a partner”. If you need to cover a second relationship insert “next had a relationship with” instead of “next married”. At the bottom substitute “Partner” and “Partnership” for “Spouse” and “Marriage”. Make sure you click Save. I found I needed to insert Partnership in the location field for the word to appear as Partnership instead of Marriage Information in the Family View but is better to leave it out for Ancestor report. Unfortunately partnership will appear in your Location List and has to be ignored! Certainly not a perfect solution. For some reports and charts you will find that “she” creeps in instead of “he” so you would need to do a preview and check. Cathy suggested that you substituted in the override in Event sentences, [[first name]] instead of he/she. Also in a Family Chart you still get Husband and Wife – not Partners. However, the Descendant Chart seems to work and the Family View is acceptable. Also see from Dennis Kowallek using access http://web.archive.org/web/20100814184851/http://www.moss-fritch.com/legacy_7.html Judy Robert Fletcher sent Today I learnt of a distant relative who was in a legal registered civil relationship with a person of the same sex. I then started to look how this could be entered into Legacy. What I've read, and I would like members to confirm this, is that Legacy 7.5 is not capable of handling this sort of relationship. Further, if I am to understand correctly, it is against the policy of the software publishers to allow Legacy to be record for such relationships or gender changes. I would be most concerned if this is a policy decision and not just a technical problem. As in genealogy we record the records as they are and our own personal views and prejudices must override this. Some time ago, I found in the parish register, my great aunt who baptised her two illegitimate children who were born 12 years apart. I was horrified to see that the vicar had recorded occupation as, "A harlot", because this was official records I still recorded it as an occupation and put some notes alongside. I am hoping that some members can give me some reassurance and also how I can work around entering this relationship into legacy. 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
