Submit this to [email protected]. We probably need to see pictures of your screen to see what is going on and you cannot use pictures in messages to this list.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 04/04/2014 9:47 PM, Norma wrote: > 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 “husbandâ€Â. >>> >>> 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 “marriedâ€Â. >>> >>> 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) >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> Le >> >> >> . >> > > > > > > > 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). 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