I agree - the people I need to make invisible are people that married into the family and are now an ex - and I do not want to include in any report.
If there were children - these children are being raised by another father as step or adopted and again - everyone - including children - do not want to see the 'sperm' doner on their charts. For genealogy reasons - I want to notate the course of events - but for charts that will be displayed to family - I honor their wishes. Again - what I am doing now - is not setting these people up as real people - I include the information under the spouse in [[private]] notes. So I would like to say - if marked invisible - anyone from that person down is not included. I will have arranged for offspring to show under other family. If marked private - then reports can run as they do now. Thanks Dave for looking into this - Kay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Berdan Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Invisible - V.5 The "invisible" feature is just an, as yet, unimplemented extension of the Private feature. You can currently mark a person as Private and the information for Private individuals is suppressed on reports and is replaced with "Private." Someone suggested that Private individuals not be mentioned at all. That is when I came up with the "invisible" extension and we have been talking about the effects and ramifications of such an option. The big question is what to do on a descendant-type report when one of the descendants is marked as Private/Invisible. If we don't include anything about the person on the report, do we also then not include anything about their descendants? Or do we skip a generation...for example, someone's child followed by their great-grandchildren (if a grandchild is invisible)? I suspect that the most likely candidates for "invisibility" are not direct relatives but rather rouge spouses or "friends" that the family would rather forget about. These types of individuals could be left out of a report and not affect the flow of the descendancy even if they had children. It is when the direct-line descendant is marked as invisible that we have a decision to make. My current proposal is that any non-direct-line individuals that are marked as invisible be ignored in the report (no mention at all). Any invisible direct-line individuals would be included and shown as "Private" but no other information would be given. Reaction? Thanks, -- Dave Berdan Millennia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Main" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Invisible - V.5 > I believe the "invisible" feature is the "Private" checkbox in the > lower right corner of the Individual Information edit form (ie: when > you're editing an individual's data). Checking this "Private" option > is then supposed to make the individual "invisible" on reports, web > pages and exports. There's been discussion of just how this should/is > working. You'll have to try it. .../Jeremy Main > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:43 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Invisible - V.5 > > > > I don't think it is in yet. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "jcthacyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:44 PM > > Subject: [LegacyUG] Invisible - V.5 > > > > > > > I've been reading a lot about the "invisible" feature, and it's > > > also included on the What's New section of the help file in V 5. > > > > > > Where is it? I've looked everywhere, but somehow it escapes me. > > > > > > Kathy > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
