Sue, Interestingly, it seems to work for me in Legacy Charting - if it doesn't for you, Sue, please let me know and let's see if we can sort it out.
BTW sorry about the spelling errors in my last post, I knew they were there but left them to the spell checker which didn't work! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 8:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Solo parent adoption Sue, Brian, I have been unable to get rid of the unwanted partner from with Legacy, and, Brian, in my view there are problems with both the Privacy and Invisible options when a child is linked by adoption to a single person. In particular, I contend that when the "Unknown" Legacy introduced, non-existant partner is set to invisible then this should not affect the adopted children of the real person. Sue, the only way I can suggest is to save as text and open in, say, Notepad++, Word, OpenOffice Writer, or similar and delete the fictitious spouse. Alternative if you have a PDF editor you could save in that format and delete. It should be possible to do in Legacy when the bigs get sorted out. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Sue McLachlan Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 11:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Solo parent adoption Thanks Ron, that will be my mistake then - and sounds like the chart is an issue. Got that far though with the reports which is great. Thanks very much. Sue -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Solo parent adoption Thanks for the feedback, Sue. I was sure that in your original post you said reports, and my tests show that the changes I suggest work for those. I will have a think about the Charts tomorrow. Ron Ferguson http://www.ferggys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Sue McLachlan Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 9:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Solo parent adoption Thanks Ron, I followed this and did all of those steps, but when I go to print or view a descendant chart (not report?? same thing?) It still comes up with unknown printed as a spouse. It doesn't come up as unknown in other reports. If I put it into the charting companion it comes up as "no partner" which is slightly better. Thanks for your help. Sue -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 8:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Solo parent adoption Sue, Sherry has given below details as to how marriage wording can be changed, and this provides the answer to your problem. I used the sample file to test and added a child, John Doe, to Ruth Brown, and tested using the Descendant Report. The full procedure I used is as below. 1. Add an unlinked individual, name John Doe b. abt 1820 2. Click on the box above him to add a mother, select "link to an existing person" and choose Ruth Brown, RIN 121. 3. Right click on John Doe and under Children's Settings set "Relationship to Mother" as adopted 4. Click Marriage Information and under the General Tab check "this couple did not marry" and change Ruth's married name back to "Brown" 5. Under the Wording Options tab change Family View labels to "Male" and "Female" - not particularly important and btw. I think that there is a bug here as my label for Ruth shows "Sister". 6. Now for a spot of lateral thinking ! Under the first line "Report phrases for first marriage or partnership" -"Ruth" in the box delete all the stuff about had a relationship etc. and replace with "adopted a child". Save 7. Print a Descendant report which instead of the stuff about marriage now reads "Ruth adopted a child" Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 11:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Solo parent adoption You can change the wording on reports on the Marriage Information window > Wording Options tab (for the couple) as well as the wording in the reports themselves using the wording tab (for the whole report) Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Sue McLachlan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a solo mother on my tree who has adopted a child and I > can’t > get > rid > of the > “unknown†> father on the reports. > I have read past posts and tried the following: > Under customise, I have turned the unknown to just leave blank. but it > still > comes up. > Tried the did not marry. > Tried leaving private, but then the daughter > isn’t > printed either. > I am using Legacy 7.5 > Thanks for any help > Sue McLachlan (NZ) 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). 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