Hi Trent,
I am not sure how this would appear in printed reports but it works OK in
web pages. There is nothing to stop a person having multiple parents so you
can show the child as the son of the biological parents and also the adopted
son of his subsequent parents. The child has the same RIN in both instances
and will show up attached to both sets of parents - in fact for web pages it
creates two web pages instead of just one and links them as appropriate.
Have you tried this?
Ron Ferguson
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From: "Trent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Show both Adoptive and Biological Parents on
Ancestor Report
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:05:33 -0700
Thanks for you help, Elizabeth. Why is it that the solution always calls
for buying more software...<g>... (i.e., I now need to file my taxes in two
states (I married an out of state gal and she still lives in that state)
and
just discovered I need to purchase an additional state from the software
company).
I'm trying to show a fascinating story I just discovered in my family. My
aunt's husband's (uncle in-law) brother adopted a son. Many years later,
due to needing to get a passport and losing some of his original adoption
decrees, he went searching for his biological parents to get his actual
birth record. In his search, he discovered that he is actually the
biological son of my paternal grandmother's brother.
I'm trying to figure out an interesting way of showing this link on a
report
or chart. May have to try Treedraw.
-Trent
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Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 5:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Show both Adoptive and Biological Parents on
Ancestor Report
Trent,
You can try the shareware version of TreeDraw or buy $40 download-only
Legacy TreeDraw to see if it meets your requirements. Extensive editing may
be required to get the desired results. Small charts of non-bio parents
could be saved as images and added to traditional charts.
A couple of $30 genealogy programs have automatic all-names box charts but
they are not as easy to read as traditional ancestor charts starting with
ONE person and the "selected" parents for each child. It is misleading to
show non-bio parents "as if" they are bio parents in genealogy charts and
reports. One program allows multiples of custom details to be printed on
wall charts so a "Memo" can explain "Mary's son" who has a different
surname
in a descendant wall chart for his stepfather's family.
Select the reports and charts you want for OUTPUT and then plan data entry
to suit. Editing of the wording may be required for non-bio relationships
in
an ancestor report. Living people are usually recorded in blended families
and individuals orphaned before 1900 are usually with their bio parents in
my files. I've found several of the six children from an 1848 guardianship
document in the 1851 census but a couple of them may have lived in a
household with a different surname.
I don't like reading ancestor reports with long notes. Grandmother's life
goes from 1890-1980 then the next note is about a great-grandparent who
lived 1850-1900 in a completely different part of the world.
Several direct ancestors in my files were raised in blended households. A
minister was a very kind father to a widow with six children so one branch
of notes starts with his wife to include all her children. One of their own
son became a doctor and politician mentioned frequently in Canadian history
books. -- Elizabeth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trent"
> Is there a way to show both Adoptive and Biological Parents on an
Ancestor
> Report? On any report or chart?
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