Single parents and multiple parents cause complications in GEDCOM file
transfers as well as unexpected results in reports. If you need to share
files, make sure that the child-parent information will be accurate.
Safest method is to enter two bio parents in the file and explain all other
relationships in individual (general) notes. Particularly difficult to
manage report wording for living single parents who may have children with
different unnamed partners.
PAF 5 is limited to the same relationship of a child to TWO parents so a
file might have a step relationship for the bio mother and her second spouse
OR a bio relationship for the bio father and his second spouse. When Legacy
5 imports a PAF file, the information about the original bio relationships
may be lost (left blank) so that three or more people have the same
relationship to one child. -- Elizabeth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Leavitt"
Is there a way to get Legacy to correctly show a single unmarried parent
as an adoptive parent? My situation is I know both the biological parents
and the adoptive parent of my ancestor. When I enter the biological
parents as the first set of parents and then try to add the adoptive
parent as a second parent, Legacy insists on assigning a marriage event to
an "Unknown" for the other adoptive parent.
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