Jack wrote:
> Adding persons having more than one relationship:
>
> So the best way is to enter the new person with its new relationships and
> then manually merge the two records together?
>
Huh? Nearly everyone has at least two relationships. Every child
has at least two parents, thus two relationships. Every marriage
(or union) is another one and every child is another after that.
So after the first couple is entered, every person after that typically
has two or more relationships. Even "going up" from first couple, the
father
of the current wife (for example) has a relationship to that current wife
(his dau.)
and to his own wife (usually the "current" wife's mother). You just need to
enter
one record for each new person, and then if you tell Legacy to enter
the person in as the child of a couple or the parent of the current wife
(or husband), then Legacy will handle all the linkages properly for you.
Merging is unusual for typical data entry. It's only used when you
combine two files into one and then want to merge people in the file
who are the same. Also if you research an ancestor of your father
for example and then later on discover that you have also put that
same person in as an ancestor of you mother, then it would be good
to merge those two different entries in the database who really
represent the same physical person. We talk about merging
people, but legacy doesn't really do that. It just merges entries
in its database. The entries are supposed to represent people,
so we write and speak somewhat imprecisely about merging
people when in reality we are merging database entries.
jr
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