omg! Please stop! ~Don
On Jun 24, 2013, at 3:44 PM, "Ron Ferguson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Pat, > > You say “if there is no known relationship that resulted in a marriage” and > continue “the ability to say (on the individual screen) that the individual > never married”. > > So if there is no *known* relationship then the person never married? Really > – bigamists with an unknown first marriage for example? And I could give a > number of others. > > I have no particular objection to your request, but even by itself for > somebody over marriageable age to be declared as to “never have married” > because records cannot be found does not make sense. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: Pat Hickin > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marriages > > But if there is no known relationship that resulted in a marriage or in any > known children, you don't have a marriage screen. All I am asking for is the > ability to say (on the individual screen) that the individual never married > without making any kind of statement in regard to children, since I have no > way of knowing (especially for a man and most especially for one long since > dead) whether he fathered children. > > It seems so obvious to me!! > > As for those of you who are weary of this discussion, just don't bother to > read the correspondence on the subject -- !! > > Pat > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Tony Slunka <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tony >> >> As a programmer you know that for the statement "This person did not marry >> and had no children" to be true both parts of the statement must be true. >> >> If there is no marriage/relationship and no child the you would mark the >> "This person did not marry and had no children" >> >> If either part is false than either a child was born or a marriage occurred. >> >> If a child was born than a marriage/relationship occurred. The marriage >> screen allows you to mark "did not marry" if this is the case. >> >> If a marriage occurred the marriage screen allows you to mark " no children" >> if this is the case. >> >> Tony S. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 9:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [LegacyUG] marriages >> >> Jay >> >> I wrote my first program in 1967 and was a professional programmer and >> database designer from 1972 until I retired in 2004. I have designed and >> implemented databases far more complex than that used by Legacy - which is >> in no way meant to belittle the Legacy programmers. No database should be >> any more complex than necessary. >> >> If I (or my team) ever implemented something which did not reflect the >> reality of the situation we were emulating, then we would consider it a bug. >> >> All Pat and I want is for the statement "This person did not marry and had >> no children" to be split into two halves, and for the "did not marry" half >> to be available when there is a relationship record created in Legacy. >> >> If anyone has no use for that, then fine - don't use it. I have no use >> for LDS ordinances, so I make no comment about them. >> >> If a person did not marry, then that is something which should be recorded >> at the individual level. It is a little strange to suggest that the fact >> that someone did not marry should be recorded in a marriage record. >> >> Yes, I have entered this as a suggestion through proper channels. >> >> Tony > > > 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
