On the contrary, Marty, I respectfully disagree. While I agree birth before marriage for adopted children is more likely to be legitimate (pardon the pun) than with marriage, this *is* a situation that *definitely* might be indicating an error.
We wouldn't want Legacy, for example, to blithely ignore a child's birth date 100 years prior to the adoptive parents' marriage date. In my opinion, we do NOT want Legacy to attempt to over-think the situation. We want Legacy to flag the potential problems so that you and I can eyeball each one. Remember the real purpose of the Potential Problems list (in my opinion) - to highlight the places to take a closer look. The problem might be that the wrong child got connected to the wrong family; the problem might be that something got mucked up in an Intellishare merge. The problem might not be precisely what Legacy is flagging... but by taking a close look with my own eyeballs, and with what I know of the actual family situation, I can sort things out. With a large, file, yes, it's painful to get things completely clean. I seem to have mucked up my own file in correcting all locations to standard format. I'm still thinking about that one; fortunately I do fire off (control-B) backups before and after large "massaging" of the file as a whole. So, yes, cleaning up all the potential problems is major, or can be. At the same time, though, I wouldn't want Legacy to arbitrarily decide potential problems are to be ignored. In this case, the *usual* situation is to have birth date after marriage date, even for adoptive parents. Not always, to be sure, but that's what the *potential* problems report is for. My alternate opinion, for what it's worth, Ed On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 12:58, Martin Hahn wrote: > Sherry, > > I don't see why it would be listed as a "problem" in either case. > Birth before marriage might be a good indicator of a potentially > incorrect date (birth date or marriage date) for natural > relationships, but for adoptions it doesn't indicate anything. I > cannot see any advantage to including it in the problem report. > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Marty > > On 7/9/05, LegacySupport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt, > > > > Adopted children could also be born after the marriage of the couple. The > > mother could have been pregnant by another man at the time of the marriage > > and then when the child was born, the husband adopted the child. > > > > Thanks for using Legacy. > > > > Sherry > > Customer Support > > Millennia Corporation > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > > > > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > > Thanks. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt > > Henderson > > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:13 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems for Potential Problems > > > > > > Potential Problems has a few Potential Problems. It seems even though I > > have some children marked as "Father: Adopted Mother: Natural" > > The Check for "Potential Problems" brings up that these children were born > > before the marriage of the parents. I realize that I can exclude these from > > that problem, but shouldn't the program recognize that the children were > > adopted and should be automatically excluded? Isn't that why the Child > > Satatus Box is present? > > > > I have a large file with many modern mixed families, so excluding so many of > > these is a large task. > > > > Matt > > > > 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
