Ron, Thanks. I tried this and see that both parents do show up on a web page. This may be the way to go. I will have to play with this some more.
Thanks, Trent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 1:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Show both Adoptive and Biological Parents on Ancestor Report 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 _______________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ View Individual Trees Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ _______________________________________ >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 > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >E.Rodier >Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 5:47 AM >To: [email protected] >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? _________________________________________________________________ Are you using the latest version of MSN Messenger? 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