Re: [LegacyUG] Never married option in Legacy 8

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I agree - why force calling it a marriage - unless this is something that will never be allowed because of theology, not genealogy on the part of Legacy. -----Original Message----- From: Pat Hickin Sent: Jun 18, 2013 10:14 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Never married option in Legacy 8 Sherry, There is a difference between marrying and having a relationship.  I am just saying that I may know that the person never married.  I don't know whether that person had a relationship.  I don't know whether that person had children, and I should not be forced to say so. I think everyone knows that -- short of divine intervention -- it takes both an egg and a sperm to produce a human child. Also, it seems to me that one ought to be able to say that a woman never married AND that she had a child.  (A man, too, for that matter.  We all know that wedlock and children do not necessarily go hand in hand.  I don't know why Legacy insists on combining them. Pat On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Sherry/Support <she...@legacyfamilytree.com> wrote: 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 <pph...@gmail.com> 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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