If you know the father of the child Jenny Benson's answer is what you should do. If you do not know the father though here is how you can link the child to the mother and an "unknown" spouse.
Unlink the child from all his existing parents Select the child in Family View (his parent area should be empty) Right click on the child and select Add Mother Use the Link to an Existing person button Choose the mother from the Name list that opens Click the select button to add him/her as a child of the mother. This will create a "marriage" between the mother and an unknown (non-existent) spouse. The person will be a child of this union. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 10/01/2015 12:55 PM, W. Bruce Matson wrote: > Hello, > I wonder if someone could advise me as to how to enter a child born out > of wed-lock. > After this child was born the Mother married and had several children by > this union. > Until this week I thought that this infant was part of that first marriage > which I had already entered as such. Now I discover that the child had a > different (and unknown) father. To complicate things even more, the Mother > divorced > and remarried another person and again several children were born. I realize > that any children > born will show as child or child 1/2 depending on who the "preferred spouse" > is. Here, is my > problem; I can un-link the child in question but is there a way to show this > individual (other than > in a Note) and not as belonging to another family as a 1/2 sibling? > I thought that I could unlink the individual, create another spouse, > albeit an Unk spouse, and re-link > the child here. That didn't work. No matter what I do, the child in question, > relinks as belonging to > one of the other family's.This is an important person in showing the correct > continuity of the ancestral line. > As it stands now, it appears that I have a "step sister" marrying a "step > brother" when I create a Relationship > chart! > This Mother and child (especially the child) are very important but how > do I keep them separate from the two marriages > and other children that her Mother was later part of? > I'm using Legacy 8 installed on Windows 8.1 > Thanks for your help > > Bruce Matson > > > > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
