Could you adopt a system of AKA's that might help you decide who to keep
and reject. If all the adoptions in have the non-family birth name in
the AKA and you give all their decendants this same AKA that would help
eliminate the non-genetic descendants. In the same way adoptions out
would be given an AKA of the genetic surname and their descendants would
inherit that. Then you could drop all those whose AKA is NOT the genetic
surname. And Add all those whose AKA is EQUAL to the genetic surname.
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Thanks.
Dave Naylor wrote:
On 20 Jan 2006 Dennis Kowallek wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:43:45 -0500, "Dave Naylor"
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Any suggestions as to how best accomplish this with the existing
features?
Off the top of my head...
1> tag all descendants of the ancestor in question
2> untag those that are not living
3> untag those that are female
4> untag those with a different surname
I think this will get you close.
Thanks for responding Dennis.
Yes . . . close . . . but no cigar! The catch in this is adoptions,
both "in" and "out" of the family line. Adoptions "in" adopt the
surname but need to be dropped. Whereas adoptions "out" get a
different surname but need to be included.
It's surprising just how many adoptions show up. Many families were
too large or parents died early and children got moved around.
I see I can drop same-surnames based on being adopted but that
doesn't also drop *their* descendants. I also don't see how I can
retain different surnames based on adoption out. This sure is
difficult but I'm struggling to discover a way to do it.
Cheers, -- Dave
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