Here is a work around that I use with what I think is success. My senerio:
Dad 1 dies young
Mom 1
Son A of Dad 1 and Mom 1.
Mom 1 marries
Dad 2. (Dad 2 raise son A, as his own but never adopts him)
Dad 2 comes with 2 small children from his first marriage who's 1st wife passed
away in child birth.
Dad 2 and Mom 1 have two still born children. No living children from this
union. the 3 small children are raised as a single family though they are not.
Dad 1 and Mom 1 are a family group with Son A.
Dad 2 and mom 2 are a family group with Daughter B and Daughter C.
Dad 2 and Mom 1 are a family group with still born children, but here is how I
am different:
I added Son A (add an existing Son) and set his relationship to Dad as step
child and mom as biological
I added Daughter B & C (add an existing daughter) and set the girls
relationship as biological to the dad and as step to the mom.
This shows the family group as everyone knew this family as. They all
acknowledge that there were other parents and I can print the other family
groups as well. (One for each of the biological origins of the family, and one
with the blended family with all the relationships stated) When printing family
groups or decendents make sure you check the option show child parent
relationships. This will print this information when ever it is completed on
that particular family group that it is completed for.
I don't do this on all blended families, but I have several that quite frankly
they became a family when the children were young and are the family unit that
they grew up with. What happend before that is just facts or genes.
It isn't the perfect geneology way of doing it, but I am saying I record
family history....and these two familes were just that families.
Hope this helps you.
Diana
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