RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:49:09 -0700 

Hello all who have responded to my plea for help

To Margaret: your suggestion to go the marriage list-> edit marriages -> 
wording options did work, but only for each particular marriage: the wife was 
at "0/O" & when changed to "wife" the change appeared on the family view screen 
but only for that one marriage.  All the other marriages still have "0/O" 
rather than wife.  When I tried that (edit marriage even though he was never 
married) for a male child who died young & whose pane said "wife" & I changed 
the wording options to "male", the change was not made & the word remained 
"wife"

To Brian/Support: I wasn't seeing a person's name in the upper left corner of 
the individual's screen.  For the recently added persons, the correct gender 
was selected, and can't be altered as it is "grayed out.  For all the other 
individuals (at least all I checked on) the gender button is not only correct 
but is not "grayed out"   I'm not trying to enter a same sex marriage. These 
are people back in the 1700's.

Going back to the starting family and tracing out each ancestor line for all 
the previously entered families, "husband" appears in the upper left of the 
male or husband pane & "0" or "O" in the upper left of the female or right hand 
pane in each case in which this is a married couple

In the case of a single male, such as a male child who died young, the upper 
left pane has the word "wife" (the male gender "button" is clicked on) and the 
upper right hand pane is "married".

In the case of a single female child, the upper left pane is also "wife" and 
the upper right pane is also "married"

In other words, for any single person, rather than "male" on the left or 
"female" on the right, "wife" appears in the upper left of the left pane and 
"married" appears in the upper left of the right pane.

When I go the recently added husband & wife, the situation changes & "wife" 
appears in the left hand or husband's pane & "married" appears in the female or 
wife's pane.

Worse, the same problem has appeared in my other family files which were not 
open.  ("0" or "O") where "wife should appear.

In my non-techy opinion, something has happened to the basic Legacy software 
which controls all family files on my PC. The question is: what do I do now?

I hope I've been able to explain this well enough to have someone tell me what 
happed & why & how to correct it.

Norma

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

If you see a person's name in the Husb area of the family view that is because 
Legacy thinks the person is Male. When you add a spouse to a male the person is 
going to be classed as female (Legacy does not support same-gender 
relationships). To correct gender errors for husbands and wives go to Edit > 
Swap Husband and Wife to correct their genders and swap their names so they 
appear in the correct section of the Family View.

Try fixing the gender of the people in those three families then see if your 
display works correctly.

Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[email protected]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

On 04/04/2014 9:13 AM, Norma wrote:
> Hello Cathy & Mike
>
> Both good suggestions.  I had already tried rebooting my computer & that 
> hadn't solved the problem.  I just ran file maintenance & the problem 
> persists.
> One other problem I hadn't mentioned, but which is most likely related:  I 
> first noticed something was wrong when I added a father to an existing 
> family.  When I went to the father's family view to add a wife, I noticed the 
> words "husb" were in the pane where her name would be when she was entered.  
> I went ahead & entered her name and all seemed to be well. This happened with 
> twice with 2 different families.  But that's when I noticed the 0 in the 
> upper left hand pane of the wife's side of the page & the other issues I 
> mentioned.
>
> I have a recent copy on my laptop as well as my flash drive, so can go back 
> to those slightly earlier versions and copy over to my PC, but would like to 
> clear this up & find out why this happened so it never happens again.
>
> Norma
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MikeFry [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view
>
> On 04 Apr 2014 05:04, Norma wrote:
>
>> Something strange has just happened to my file.  In the family view
>> in the upper left corner of each person’s details, where either
>> husband or wife is printed, suddenly all the females have a “0” and the 
>> males have “husband”.
>>
>> In the case of a male child who died young & never married,  in the
>> upper left corner of his pane is the word “wife” and in the upper
>> left corner of the right hand pane is the word “married”.
>>
>> In the case of a female child for whom I have only a birth date, in
>> the upper left corner of her pane is the word “married” & in the
>> upper left corner of the left hand pane is the word “wife”
>
> As always, with something like this, your first (and possibly subsequent) 
> resort is to try and repair the file: File--> File Maintenance--> 
> Check/Repair. Try this to see whether there are any problems in the data that 
> can be fixed. You may have to perform this several times - until no errors 
> are detected.
>
> If the problem persists, I would guess the final solution would be to 
> reinstall Legacy.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mike Fry
> Johannesburg (g)
>
>
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