Couldn't you create a father with "Unknown" as a surname and attach the girls to him? You don't have to create a marriage fact. Carol Anne On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Gail Pullyblank via <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, Sue & Cheri > > Thanks very much for the quick responses. > > Because the fathers are unknown, when I try to arrange spouses for Harriet, > only one fellow shows up - so that is not working. > I think Tom's suggestion may work - I didn't really want to attach them as > step-children since the children were all on their own when Harriet married > but think that is the way to get them to show as a family group. > > How do I show Harriet's husband as step father rather than just father. > I tried to add him to one of the children but now it shows him married twice > to Harriet - so will need to fix that. > > thanks > Gail > > > -----Original Message----- > From: genealzube [mailto:genealzube@aol.com] > Sent: July 10, 2016 10:32 AM > To: 'Gail Pullyblank' <gail@gailmail.com>; rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [RMagic] Children out of order with unknown fathers > > Gail, if you click on the "Descendants" tab when you have Harriet > highlighted, you can see all of them. Then if you need to make changes to a > person, just double-click on that person to get the Edit screen. > > And if you have that screen open, you can watch where they move as you do > the Rearrage > Spouses that someone else mentioned. > > > Cheri Zuber > http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~zuber/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gail Pullyblank > via > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 11:00 AM > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: [RMagic] Children out of order with unknown fathers > > Hi > > > > I have a woman who had 5 illegitimate daughters. > > > > Is there a way to show them all together as a family for Harriet. > > At the moment I need to use descendent view and then click on each daughter > to get to her. > > > > Harriet shows up as having 7 spouses since she did eventually marry - > however 5 are unknown. > > > > Also they are out of order when I make a descendent chart. > > > > thanks for any help > > > > Gail > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message