Fred --- Can't comment on COMPANION as I don't use it - I would hope that at any reporting decision on parents that the current nominated primary parents would be selected - and, as in PAF, that an optional indicator can be selected to give a printed indication that there are other parents for the child in question. Regards, Stewart -----Original Message----- From: HoutsRFred@aol.com [mailto:HoutsRFred@aol.com] Sent: 04 June 2005 16:32 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Re: Biological/Adopted STEWART -- How would printing of Register Reports using COMPANION handle this? It seems the program (software) might be confused by this. Fred ========================== In a message dated 6/4/2005 9:52:09 A.M. Central Daylight Time, sm999@tiscali.co.uk writes: On the question of one of the biological parents being involved with a new spouse who adopts the children - whilst PAF does not easily allow for this - as previously noted, PAF will only allow a given set of parents to be either biological or adoptive - one way of dealing with it is to create two sets of parents for the child - the true biological parents and a further set of parents involving the new adoptive spouse and the original biological parent. The end result is that the child's paternity can be displayed for the adoptive line - involves one biological and one adopted parent AND alternatively can be displayed for the two biological parents. The common biological parent is the same PAF RIN and does not involve any duplicating of data. PAF will allow you to set one of these paternity links as the Primary parent link which will be automatically displayed as the default - but as required can be switched for on-screen viewing and analysis. Using the "Edit Parents Links" for an adopted child will display the other recorded parents (with RIN id's) - any commonality of parents will make the biological/adopted relationships apparent. Hope this helps. Regards, Stewart ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== AVG Anti-Virus Users Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.