And Kurt's last sentence explains why Legacy does differentiate between spouses of blood relatives. When relationships were redesigned to accommodate the other languages we had to change from the usual English method and differentiate between a blood relative aunt uncle niece nephew and the equivalent who were only related by marriage not blood so those languages could use the correct terminology.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 20-Jan-2014 1:08 AM, Kurt Kneeland wrote: > I can't answer the why part of your question, but it is how Legacy is set up. > > The Relationship displayed in Family View, Pedigree View and other places is > always a blood relationship, immediate in-laws, or spouse of those. > > Other non-blood relationships are only shown in the Relationship Calculator, > and then they are listed as not related but the relationship path is shown. > > Legacy's limitation of the aunt/uncle - niece/nephew to just the blood > relationships does appear to be non-standard. Wikipedia, Meriam Webster and > a couple of other online dictionaries all included the spouses of aunts and > uncles as uncles and aunts, and conversely, the children of a spouse's > siblings as nieces and nephews. Wikipedia did mention that in some cultures, > the designations are different. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert57P_gmail [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 5:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship > > I have a couple of nieces (on my wife's side - my wife's brother's kids). We > took guardianship of them in their pre-teen years, thus I have added them to > myself and my wife as "children" in Legacy. I have the "children's setting" > "Relationship to father" (and mother) set to "Guardian". > > My question - when I SET RELATIONSHIP on me or when I run the RELATIONSHIP > CALCULATOR, why does she ONLY show up as my DAUGHTER? Why won't it show her > as my NIECE also? (I have the non-blood relationships set to 10 - the max). > > Even if I unlink her from us (so she is only showing under her > blood-parents), NIECE still does not show up for me (yes, I recalculated the > relationships). > > This is true for both 7.5 and 8. > > For my wife, she shows up as both DAUGHTER and NIECE, but not for me. I > guess technically she might be considered my "niece-in-law", but I thought > niece and nephew (and aunt and uncle) applied to both spouses? > > Similarly, for another niece (on my side of the family - with no "guardian" > or other oddity): > When I SET RELATIONSHIP on that niece, I show up as "Uncle", but my wife does > not show up as "Aunt". Instead she shows up as "Wife of Uncle". > When I SET RELATIONSHIP on myself, the NIECE shows up as NIECE. > When I SET RELATIONSHIP on my wife, my niece shows up as NOT RELATED to my > wife. > > Bob > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > . > 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
