Yes, You can change the 'phrasing" just about for everything, thats one of the greatest features of Legacy.
for marriages, just click next to the date and then go to "Wording Options" What you are seeing as far as the phrases you listed are the "defaults" and those are generally good for many users. (And there has to be some kind of default) And everyone should remember that a simple search in Google can find these things in this case a search for "Wording options for Legacy Genealogy reports" will bring up several links to answers. Jay On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Malcolm Williams <[email protected]>wrote: >    This topic has certainly struck a nerve. It is a fact that > Legacy creates a "marriage" whenever a child is added to a single person, > whether that person is a man or woman. I prefer to have nothing in Family > View for the other person responsible for the child, rather than "unknown" > or some other term. I also know that I can change the status of this > marriage to whatever I choose. It is when I produce a report, say a > descendant narrative that I begin to have problems. >    As an example, I created a record for a man and added a child, and > changed the status of the Legacy forced marriage to unmarried. The net > result in the descendant narrative report was, (leaving Marriage Status box > checked in Report Options):* John married someone**. Marriage status: > unmarried. He had one daughter Jill. *I am being lazy once again in > asking - is there anywhere that I can choose to have the *married > someone*phrase not appear or rephrased? >    It even gets more interesting when a child is added to a single > woman, the above reports returns: *Jill married someone. Marriage status: > unmarried. He had a son John*. >    The marriage function in Legacy is fundamental to its structure, > hence the inability to record same sex relationships (without choosing who > plays the male or female role!) and I have been told that to have Legacy do > this, it would require a complete rewrite. Perhaps the same applies to the > issues being raised in this thread. >    Regardless, I am looking forward to the release of Legacy 8. >  > Mal, Dareton NSW Australia > > > 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 > 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
