They say timing is everything. Just yesterday I was fighting with the words added to a report that said. "John married." To settle this I added a new choice to marriage status, "Marriage status unknown". However, when I selected that, it did not change the report. I have read with great interest all the posting about this topic but did not see one from Sherry.
If you select "unmarried" as Paula suggested your report says John had a child. If you do as Tom suggested and select delete spouse you will be ok. I have too many people to go thru and delete a spouse that never existed. By the way I added a new person and did not touch the spouse or married info at all and still got the "John married" so it isn't a matter of some how giving the impression that the person had a spouse. Using the "never married" option really bothers me because other researchers may never look for a marriage that I did not happen to find. The only way I have found to settle this is to go to the marriage screen and change the word MARRIED in the box next to person 1. Is there a way to change this default word. I am starting to feel this is a major glitch. To change the married status every time I add a person and then change it back if a marriage is found seems to me a bit cumbersome, not to mention that if I miss someone I will be giving out information that can very easily be misinterpreted. Like the person either never married when they may have or if I miss one that I no they married when I don't. RJ sent a warning for standard edition but I have the deluxe edition. I would love to have support work on this default wording. Maybe this is one field that should not have an automatic word selection. Karen V. Sipe 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
