To Otto, John Steed and others, Maybe a work around would be to include a further option with parent-type called Unknown. (Currently there's natural, adoptive, step, foster and other but nothing for one where the actual type is uncertain.) Natural and Unknown could be coded to always connect with the 'bloodline' in ancestor charts and ahnentafel book reports whereas the other options might only link if the special checkbox option was selected to show ancestors of all parent-types. I like the idea for the situation where adopted, step etc. info is asked for, for the non-direct line descendants (in laws etc.) have their parent-type status (i.e. adopted, step, foster) displayed the same as do the direct-line (main focus) descendants in the descendant reports. I know this would mean quite a bit extra program code to accommodate, but it has obviously been something that is of sufficient interest for the author to put in the database and thus would be fair to treat equally to the ones that are the main focus of the report. As Otto mentioned, it would take time to prepare and test out such a thing but maybe an option for the medium to long term perhaps? Some interesting ideas coming forth from this. Andrew. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto Jørgensen via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 1:37 AM Subject: Re: [BK] complex relationships ... 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 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