To John Steed and all, Thanks John Steed for your response. You make mention of making an option to not show adoptive parents on the ancestor chart. To my way of thinking the same would apply for a stepparent or foster parents. They would not be the 'bloodline' and yet would show in the present report. Can those situations be worked with as well? Again, to my way of thinking what people would normally expect to get from an ancestor chart report would be a linkage list of 'bloodline' ancestors and family and so I was thinking, could the report default to the 'bloodline' and have the listing of adopted, step, foster connections where entered (the present situation) as a checkbox option? Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Steed" <[email protected]> To: "Andrew Jackett" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [BK] complex relationships ... To Andrew Jackett The Ancestor chart shows the primary parents of each person. (The mother and father that show on the Edit screen) It is not currently setup to show parents only if they are the biological parents. It is currently setup to show families, and adoptive children are children in the family. And adoptive parents are the parents of those children. If you only want biological parents, then do not attach adopted children to adoptive parents. I plan to make an option in the future to not show adoptive parents on the ancestor chart. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Jackett" <[email protected]> To: "John Steed" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Otto Jørgensen" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [BK] complex relationships ... > Hello Otto, John Steed and all, > > The Ancestor reports show ancestors of adopted, step and foster children > incorrectly. You can indicate that a child is adopted by both parents and > it will list as though they are the person's natural parents on a register > or indented book report by saying (son of or (daughter of so and so and so > and so). The pedigree listing in the alternative register book report > assumes the pedigrees are natural ones when they can be through adoption. > Worst of all, any ancestry charts where adopted, step, foster children are > shown will assume a linkage as though the parents are natural ones when > they're not. Help! Help! It seems as though the ancestry report isn't > checking the right parent-type linkages before drawing up the ancestor > tree. > > Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Otto Jørgensen via" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:51 AM > Subject: Re: [BK] complex relationships ... > > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:44:26 -0400, "John Steed" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>To Otto >> >>I am not sure what you mean when you say BK does not show the adoption of >>a >>near family member correctly. >> >>You can attach the child to the birth parents. >> >>You can also attach the same child to the adoptive parents. >> >>The child will show on a Descendant report as a child of the birth >>parents, >>and will also show as an adoptive child of the adoptive parents. >> >>So BK does print the child in both places on most descendant reports. >> >>Most reports have an option to either print duplicate lines of descent or >>not print duplicate lines of descent when a person appears in two places. >> >>Perhaps you can email me a sample of which report is not printing >>correctly >>and I will check it out. >> > > If you see to the descendant chart the Adoppted child is on bothe the > branch to the adoptence parents and to the biological parents > and even if thay in Edit are marked correctly amd the in some report are > marked as Adoptiv, the chart does not effect that. > > I know that some will have the child to the new parents, but some not. > > Itis a question of "blood-line" and descendant connected to correct > biolocical parents > > > You say > "So BK does print the child in both places on most descendant reports." > for many that is alright, but sometimes they wish to have clean line, > e.g. if we are thinking on DNA and so on. > > I will email you later on some samples you have had before :) > > -- > Otto Jørgensen > http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ > All email is checked by NIS2014 > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:59:46 +1200, Andrew Jackett via <[email protected]> wrote: >To John Steed and all, > >Thanks John Steed for your response. > >You make mention of making an option to not show adoptive parents on the >ancestor chart. To my way of thinking the same would apply for a stepparent >or foster parents. They would not be the 'bloodline' and yet would show in >the present report. Can those situations be worked with as well? > >Again, to my way of thinking what people would normally expect to get from >an ancestor chart report would be a linkage list of 'bloodline' ancestors >and family and so I was thinking, could the report default to the >'bloodline' and have the listing of adopted, step, foster connections where >entered (the present situation) as a checkbox option? > Even if children are fosterchilld and not in directline they can be close relatives. It was not unusual that close family did take care of children if children died Many of that family groupe did also emigrate, a child was taken care of uncle aunt and they did go e.g. to USA and was they as a normaly family. Many "forrigners" search for family in e.g. Norway and are then supprised that what they was mother and father was an other part of relatives. So what to present? Shall we forget the family also. I thik we have to deale with both in a "good" way -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014