Would privacy brackets help you here? That is, put square brackets [[around anything 'private']] like this. You can see them on the screen when you're in Legacy, but you can choose to not include that data in reports. You could use them to mark the missing portion of the surname, so you can see at a glance that it's missing, but you do not have to include it in reports if you want to withhold it.
I often use privacy brackets when I know a person exists, but don't know their name, and once I find out their name enter it as an AKA, and then switch the AKA with the main name, to preserve the path of research (I like to use citation dates, so you can see which data was entered when). Hope this helps. :-) Wendy Helen McCall wrote on 8/08/2015 21:27: > My tree has South American as well as European people in it. So the > South American's have two surnames. Sometimes the second or even first > surname of someone is not remembered, so only one surname can be entered > for children and possibly parents. But the correct name should have > two. Because it's a mixed tree this absence is not readily apparent if > no marker is used. How can you show that one is missing, when Legacy > doesn't like you to enter a ? or something like that. I assume this is > a problem others have already solved. > Thanks > Helen 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
