Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 12/01/2013 06:11, Lisa Duggan wrote: I am entering a branch of the family where a husband has married twice, had two children to the first wife (who has later remarried) and one child to the second wife. Both the father, mother and their respective spouses are involved with the first two

Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread Eliz Hanebury
I never even thought of doing anything about steps beyond what Legacy does, now G I have lots to think about. I just let Legacy assign husband and wife etc should I be doing more? I see the relationships easily from the childrens settings, it gets a bit hard for the many his, hers and ours

RE: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread David Abernathy
is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Lisa Duggan [mailto:genzhun...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:12 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not? Hello all, I am entering a branch of the family where a husband has married twice

Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread Eliz Hanebury
Oh thank goodness I don't have that many marriages! With children that is! Thanks for this. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:39 PM, David Abernathy da...@schmeckabernathy.com wrote: I see no real advantage in doing this. I have people that have been up to 6 times and had children with 4 different

Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread Bruce Jones
FWIW. If the child actually lived with the step parent, then I would link that child to the step parent and indicate the relationship. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Eliz Hanebury elizhg...@gmail.com wrote: Oh thank goodness I don't have that many marriages! With children that is! Thanks

Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Lisa, I'm wondering what outcome you're wanting to achieve with this? Is it just to see all the kids of either partner in a marriage/relationship when viewing them in Legacy? If that's the case, then you can turn on show half kids to do that. Right click on a child View Show 1/2 Kids

Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread David Abernathy
If the child lives with the steparent or not, they still are a stepchild. Sent from my Kindle Fire In God We Trust Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/

Re: [LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-12 Thread Lisa Duggan
Thank you everyone for your responses. It has be very informative. Wendy, I didn't know about turning on Show 1/2 kids - that is very handy with my tree! In this case it wasn't so much what I wanted to achieve with it, more a case what does using this setting change so I could make up my mind

[LegacyUG] To add a step relationship or not?

2013-01-11 Thread Lisa Duggan
Hello all, I am entering a branch of the family where a husband has married twice, had two children to the first wife (who has later remarried) and one child to the second wife. Both the father, mother and their respective spouses are involved with the first two children (photos, contact with the