Katherine, Semantics aside, the Legacy program works that if a child has a parent, then the child has to come from a MRIN-association. If you want to eliminate a fourth relationship, you could associate the child with the mother and her next-in-line marriage. Presumably that husband adopted the child (or didn't). Viewing the children list, you can select the relationship to the father as Adopted or Guardian, and leave the mother as Natural. Keep in mind that in a report, it will show the child as the child of this couple, unless you choose to include in reports Child-Parent relationships. Run a sample test report to see how it appears.
If it is known that the mother had a child out of wedlock, but you don't want it known that it was by sperm donor, then I think you should still show the child as the result of a 4th relationship between mother and unknown. You might be able to mark the person as Private. I'm not sure how that shows up in reports. But maybe it would show up in a way that would make more sense to those in the "know" or those who are merely curious. I just tested it and got "Rachel had a relationship with Private." Perhaps private sounds better than unknown. It is more of the truth, anyway. There are other discussions along these lines in the Archives, too, but they all basically lead to the answer that a child is always the result of a male-female pairing. Hope these ideas help. Susan On 2/20/06, Katherine Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The situation: > Woman is married three times. > While she is not married, she has a child conceived from donor sperm. > Legacy insists on reporting that she has had 4 husbands, one Unknown. > Marking the "couple" as not married and deleting the terms Husband and > Wife in the marriage view doesn't fix the problem. > > Is there a way to link the mother and child with NO reference to a > husband/partner/etc. in various Legacy reports? > > But yet the child HAS a father who is Unknown. How to handle? 'Tis a > puzzlement! > > Kathie Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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
