Thanks, Cheryl, and all the other kind souls who have worked this through with me. I also am a registered user of Legacy, and they provided the following instructions which work: "Go to Options > Customize > Data Format and select to leave the Word for Blank Records as blank. "You can also indicate 'this person was never married' on the Individual Information window." Elaine Hello singhals On Saturday, May 28, 2005, you wrote > Ummm, it kinda sounds as if the rest you > haven't discovered the > back-door here, so ... > Genealogy starts with YOU and goes backward. > If you do your data-entry > the same way, some of these problems vanish magically. (g) > It is possible to add individual (Shay S > 'Adopted/) as an INDIVIDUAL! > Then you can click on her and say "add > Parent" and it will allow you to > add anyone in the database as a parent (Singh > L. /person/), does not > create a marriage record and often doesn't > even show "Unknown" in the > spouse slot. > OTOH, there does not appear to be a way to > then add a spouse for Singh > without getting Shay attached to that spouse /or/ creating a "2nd > marriage" situation. > Thing is, as someone else mentions, the data-model for PAF is > Husband-Wife-kiddlies, just as I-10 goes from > FL to Calif; if you want > to go to Chicago, you've gotta change > freeways somewhere around > Mississippi, because there's no chance I-10 > is gonna change its route to > be accommodating. If PAF's data-model is > consistently failing you, it > may be time to change programs ... perhaps to one which is NOT > lineage-linked (TMG is event-linked, for > instance) would be more > flexible and meet more of your current needs. > Cheryl