Sherry, I will send you a detailed example of the step children issue. I hope you will take the time to examine and understand the scenario so it might get fixed.
The request to show relationship to parent on family tab has been asked before and may already be in the list of enhancements wanted. If not, please do push it along. As for changing the name of Child Status to Birth Status, that is not to urgent but how it is used is important. I see lots of users that have added "Adopted" and other designations to the Child Status list just so it will display in the Family tab but that can be wrong when it is not both parents that have adopted the child. Most of the time, it is one biological parent that has re-married and the new spouse adopts the children. That is why having the Relationship to Parent fields should always be used even if the adoption is by both parents so it is consistent. The Child Status that I mentioned called "Sibling same name" is great for those families where a name has been used more than once for different children. Looking at one of those families, it is obvious that the same name was already detected and documented versus a mistake in recording. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:13 PM, Sherry/Support <[email protected]> wrote: If you want to submit suggestion forms on these ideas, Ron, I'll pass them on to the programmers (one per form please) Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Ron Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > The "Child Status" should really be labelled "Birth Status" which would have > settings like Twin, Triplet, Stillborn, Stillborn Twin, Stillborn Triplet, > and blank (single live birth). In my databases, I have added 2 new child > status: "Sibling same name" and "Sibling same name opposite gender". These > allow me to flag those children in families where they had more than one > child and re-used the name. They should not be merged. And there are some > group sheets where children of different genders have the same name probably > because the compiler did not know which gender was correct or there may have > actually been multiple children with the same name and different genders. > > The "Relationship to Father" and "Relationship to Mother" status will have > settings like Adopted, Foster, and blank (Biological). One other > relationship status that needs some work by Millennia is "Step". It can be > used to properly indicate children in a household that are from a prior > marriage of one of the parents. The 1/2 kids function of Legacy does not > distinguish between children of a prior marriage versus children of a later > marriage. Children of a later marriage are not considered step children to > any of the prior marriages. > > The relationship status is not displayed (wish it were) on the Family tab. > It can be displayed on reports and the Chronology tab. > > Ron Taylor 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
