As described to me by the programmer. It's incorrect to separate "never married" and "had no children"
When a person has a child, a relationship is established with another person - a "marriage" is created whether or not the couple was actually married. It takes two to make a child (even if one of them is an anonymous sperm donor!) and both parents need to be shown. On the "marriage" screen, you can indicate that the couple never married and set the Status to "Unmarried" or another choice. But there must be a relationship with another person to create a child. Therefore it would be incorrect to say "this person never married" if there was a child because a relationship has to be established in Legacy to create that child..... There is no 100% certain way to know if a person never had any children unless he or she died before puberty.... I'm sure all of us have at least one "hidden" marriage or child that was never acknowledged Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Pat Hickin <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope that in the new version of Legacy the option "Never married and had > no children" will be divided into to options: > Never married > Had no children > > With men especially, I have no way of knowing if men who never married > also "had no children." > > Pat > > 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
