Thanks John. I hadn’t thought it all the way through, and I knew that customize option had to be there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.
From: John B. Lisle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Adding source showing that person is a step-child Emily, Sherry, Kurt, I think you have to understand the difference between step-siblings and half-siblings. And lots of places get this confused, especially obits... ;-) A quick way to think of the difference is that you and a step-sibling share no gene pool... You and a half-sibling share half your gene pool. Let's say for example your father re-married and by his second wife had a child. That child would be your half-sibling. If your father's new wife had children from a previous marriage, they would be your step-siblings but they would be half-siblings to your half-sibling. When your setup Legacy to display half siblings, this is how Legacy does it. [Kurt, please note that you can now turn on half-siblings display in Option 8.5.] Now, this can get confusing... Your father (in example above) can be setup as a step-father to his 2nd wife's children by her previous marriage. This does entail creating another set of parents for that child. You would set the Child-parent relationship as Step. As soon as you start adding multiple parents for a child, many aspects of reporting get messy, in my opinion. Personally, I tend to stay away from them whenever possible, When I have to do them for adoptions, especially within a family, it can get real messy. --> Please note that L8 adds the ability to create Invisible Child-Parent relationships. This permits you to record the relationship but they never show up in reports unless you want them to... at least that is the theory... Getting all of the cases tested and correct is VERY difficult. OK? Does this help? john. At 04:22 PM 12/3/2013, Kurt Kneeland wrote: I f you enable display of half-siblings, they will show on child list, though there is a comment in Help that indicates Legacy does not consider these to be stepchildren. >From Family View, Right-Click on a listed child, hover/rollover the View menu >item, then click on Show ½ Kids. From: Emily Moore [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Adding source showing that person is a step-child I have an obituary that lists a survivor as a step-child. When I show the list of children, though, step-children are not listed. The stepchild is already entered with both of his biological parents. In order to note that he is the stepchild of his stepfather, do I have relink him again as a child of his mother and stepfather and then change relationship to father to step? Emily Moore 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
