On 2013/06/18 16:33, Sherry/Support wrote: > 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
Ain't English a funny language :-) Methinks it's time for Millennium to sort their terminology out and stop confusing newbies. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) 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
