John, Although Max will speak for himself, I believe he is working on ancestors -- that is he is discussing his own foster parents. There are two ways that he can do what he wishes to do, but both require some manual work. The first way follows an idea similar to the one you put forth. Suppose he is trying to show the lines of both his natural parents and his foster parents. First choose ancestors and then choose himself. In order to get ancestors of his secondary parents he needs to do another select (ancestors) on EACH of his secondary parents. Then all of the correct records have been chosen and the GEDCOM is generated with all the correct links. If he wants only the names of his foster parents then he has to get their BK number and add each of them separately as a range of BK numbers (the range being only 1 number long for each). Another way that would allow him to show foster parents -- but not their own ancestors -- is to use the concept of "event." Right now you have an individual event called "Adopted By". If his foster parents had actually adopted him then he could add the event "Adopted By" to his record. To read correctly, the date field has to be blank and the preposition field (in, or, near,...) must be set to blank as well. If, however, he wants the wording to be "Foster parents are", then create this as an event and add it to his BK record. Again, to read correctly the date field has to be blank, as does the preposition field. However, since an event he "creates" will probably not be a GEDCOM event, it might be better to add the information using some standard event (such as EVENT) and in the description field put "Foster Parented by James and Susan Foster". In this case a date can be added and it will read correctly. In any event (no pun intended), I don't think it is necessary to make a programmatic change for this. Jim R ----- Original Message ----- From: John Steed To: bk@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [BK] Natural parents and foster parents To Max Just to clarify, you are making the gedcom file and picking "Descendants of" someone, is that correct? If so, I think it will only show the parents that are in the descendant line. If you make a gedcom file with the entire database, it should show both sets of parents. I could modify it to have it include both sets of parents. When you make the gedcom file and you Select people, you do know that you can select more than one group, right? Pick Descendants of your your foster parents, then again pick Desdendants of your other parents, then pick Copy. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max van Dam" <vandam@actcom.co.il> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:35 PM Subject: [BK] Natural parents and foster parents >I need your help. > > After WO II I was an orphan. After WO II I have had foster parents. They > have treated me as their own son, but did not adopt me officially. > > I have now the following problem. > > It is no problem in BK to connect both parents families to me, but if I > make a gedcom and bring that to the program to the program which I use to > publish my database, I see than only the connection between my > foster-parents and me. > > For this moment I do not know in which program is the problem either BK or > HUMO-gen that I use for my site. > > Can somebody tell me is there an official gedcom code for foster parents? > > With my best regards, > > Max van Dam > Rechovot > Israel > http://www.maxvandam.info/ > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message