First question would be do you have show 1/2 kids turned on and are you
thinking children are showing as part of a family when they are actually
showing a 1/2 kids?
To confirm which families the kids belong to select the child and place
them in the middle section of Family view.
Look for the parent icon (should be two people with white hair). If that
is coloured and has a number then the kid has multiple parents, if there
is no number then there is only one set of parents. Click the Icon to
see the names of the parents.
For the daughters who had a child with their step-father he should be
shown as the parent of the grandchild with the daughter as mother. No
other parents should be listed. If there is the daughter's husband and
daughter listed as parents as well as the step father then you need to
un-link the child from that couple by selecting the couple then using
the Unlink from child button. This will leave the daughter and her
step-father as the only set of parents. If the daughter and stepfather
do not appear as parents then use the link to existing parents button to
select the daughter and Stepfather couple from the marriage list.
To solve the problem when the daughter who had a child with the unknown
father. When adding the new husband it will be best to first add him as
an unlinked person (CTRL-N is the keyboard shortcut to do that). With
the husband selected add a wife by selecting the add existing. Select
the daughter from the name list as that wife. If that causes Legacy to
add the husband to replace the "Unknown" one then you will have to use
the unlink child to remove the child from the marriage then select the
child and use the Add Mother to add just the mother as his parent (this
will restore a marriage of that daughter with an unknown husband).
Brian Kelly
On 22-Apr.-20 6:51 a.m., Phil wrote:
Hello all: This is my first question to ‘the group’ and I trust you will
be patient while I find my way around.
I have looked at the Legacy help pages and most of the group posts on
the subject matter but still cannot find the ‘right’ way to achieve the
results I am trying to create.
The actual situation I’m trying to record comes from a ‘ regular’ family
where Dad married Mum and they had several children but unfortunately
Dad died young.
Mum then remarried (her second husband thus becoming stepfather to the
children from her 1^st marriage).
What followed, has caused my recording problem as three of Mum’s
daughters each had a child prior to marriage.
The biological father of two of those children proved to be the
aforementioned stepfather – for the 3^rd child the father was unknown.
I can’t seem to include the two (stepfathered) children without Mum
being shown as their mother (she would actually be their grandmother !)
by virtue of her being the wife of their father (the stepfather, Mum’s
2^nd husband) nor can I avoid the stepfather (the biological father of
Mum’s daughters’ children) being shown as the husband of Mum’s two
daughters who bore the stepfather’s two children !
The ‘unknown’ father of the 3^rd daughter’s child is less of a problem
until that daughter marries (but not to ‘unknown’) and starts her own
family, when her pre-marriage child is then shown as the son of her new
(1^st ) husband.
This latter problem also occurs with the other two daughters and their
pre-marriage children (fathered by the stepfather) when they marry for
the first time and start their own families with their new (1^st ) husbands.
Please HELP me to record these events correctly.
Many thanks, stay well, best wishes from.....Phil Grace
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