Now that sounds nice and sneaky. I'll give it a go. Thanks Helen On 9/08/2015 8:23 AM, Wendy Howard wrote: > 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 > > >
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