Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a father to one of an unmarried mother's children

Thanks Debby I haven't tried that way so thanks for the advice. John From: Debby Flood <shirta...@gmail.com> To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 16:53 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a father to one of an unmarried mother

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a father to one of an unmarried mother's children

I would add a husband to the unmarried mother first. Then I would unlink the child in question and relink that child to the couple. The other children remain with the mother, but without a father. Regards, Debby On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:37 AM, baxwal...@sky.com wrote: >

[LegacyUG] Adding a father to one of an unmarried mother's children

I can't quite get my head round this one. I have an unmarried mother with 4 children already recorded.   I now have the details for one of the fathers but I'm not sure of the correct way to add him with him showing as the father of the other three as well. Layman's term if possible please.

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a father

Hi Scott This is what I would do (others may have better methods!) (1) Firstly, if no father is shown for Mary's 7 children, that blank space is a ghost person, already attached to all the children. So Click To Add Person and add a new person (call him anything you like! maybe

[LegacyUG] Adding a father

I am hoping someone can guide me thru on how to add a father.  In the early 1900's, Mary had 7 (and counting) illegitimate children.  I have been able to find the first name of the father for one of the children, and a common father for 2 of the other children. The problem comes when I try to

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a father

This is going to be a little convoluted because it has to be done in several steps. First my assumption of the existing situation from your message. You have Mary and the father with all seven children shown as their children in Family View 1. If you have not done so turn on the display of RIN

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a father

On 04 Aug 2014 16:12, mime wrote: I am hoping someone can guide me thru on how to add a father. In the early 1900's, Mary had 7 (and counting) illegitimate children. I have been able to find the first name of the father for one of the children, and a common father for 2 of the other