I also was originally confused by these two fields. I originally put "adopted" in the "child status" field, until I realized there is an issue if both parents did not adopt the child. I eventually figured it out and fixed my various records, but I do agree that the usage of this field is not obvious.
Side note - I know I entered some new values to these fields, but I do not remember which ones are defaults and which are manually added. It would be nice if Legacy automatically "flagged" entries that were user created/modified. I have gotten into the habit of starting user modified items with a period (Child relationship, events, etc) so I can easily tell which ones I've "messed with" so I know I should watch their wording carefully. But I wish Legacy would do some type of indicator automatically. Anyway - my "child status" options at present are: Miscarriage None Stillborn Twin My "relationship to parent" options at present are: .cousin - I manually added this Adopted Biological Challenged Disproved Foster Guardian - I think I manually added this Sealing Step - I think I manually added this? Side note 2 - I wish there was a USER OPTION of having a screen pop-up up automatically whenever a new child is added (just like the Marriage screen automatically pops up whenever you add a new spouse). This OPTIONAL pop-up would include all three fields (Child Status, Relationship to ...). There are many times when I forget to set these fields. Yes, I realize it "assumes" Biological if blank, and I realize most of the entries would normally be "Biological", but it still would be nice to have an OPTION for the screen pop up automatically as a reminder to the user. Side note 3 - I also wish there was an option to have the value of these fields show up in more places (on the family tab and Pedigree tab for example). Thanks, Bob On 05/14/2014 21:34, Ron Taylor wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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. 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