Beginning Legacy

I've just started using Legacy and have a question. For instance, if I add a person and put their information, they have 13 kids. I would like to add a record for each of the 13 kids, but they all have kids and grandkids. My original person has 13 kids, 50 grandkids, 54 great-grand kids and 1 great-great grand child. I don't want to add original records for each grandchild, great grandchild and the great-great grandchild, I just want it to be known that the original person had so many people. How would I add all the others so they would appear on the chart? Maybe saying 50 grandkids, etc.

Thank you for your help and sorry that I didn't post it here first instead I used comments.

Margi

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Permalink Reply by Mark Charles on June 1, 2011 at 10:32pm

If you want something to show up in reports like the Descendant Chart then you will have to create a record for each of the people, entering at least their names (or something like "boy"). Entering comments into the Events/Facts area (type Other) will show you the information, but it won't print in a report/chart.

Permalink Reply by Brian Kelly on June 2, 2011 at 9:18am

Much of the power and the reports in Legacy comes from the ability to enter information on all the members of a family and use :Legacy to join those people into family groups and generations. I suggest you open the sample file provided with Legacy and try out the reports and views to see how Legacy translates information on people and families into charts and narrative reports that describe the network of people in the file.

Permalink Reply by Jeannine on June 2, 2011 at 7:16pm