Interesting! (Though I'm not sure I understand it all!) Lee -----Original Message----- From: Edna Cole [mailto:ednaicole@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:04 PM To: IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IVESTER] Question re Family Tree Program Hi Fran, Here is what the Family Tree Maker textbook p. 307-8 has to say; "Kinship: Canon & Civil---- Kinship reports list the names, relationships, and relationship degrees of the primary individual's blood relatives and their spouses, as well as the blood relatives of the primary individual's spouse(s)..... The "degree of a relationship is a legal term. It refers to the number of "steps" between two individuals who are blood relatives. The degree in Civil law represents the total number of steps through the bloodline that separate two individuals. For example, there are two steps from you to your grandparent and then two steps back down to your first cousin, so the degree is four. The degree in Canon law measures the maximum number of steps from the nearest common ancestor. Your grandparent is the the nearest common ancestor between you and your first cousin, so in this case the degree would be two. Canon law is used in most of the United States. If two individuals are related in more than one way, Family Tree Maker displays each of the relationships in the Kinship report. For example if two cousins marry, each of the relationships between them would be included." Edna Dazyy5@aol.com wrote:I have the Family Tree Maker program for entering my info but there is something I don't understand. When I print out the "kinship" chart, it shows the names, relationships, etc., Over in the right-hand column it gives (for each individual) two columns of numbers. One is "Canon" and it shows a Roman Numeral... the other is "Civil" and it has regular numbers. Does anyone know what these numbers mean? Help!!!!! Fran ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237