Beverly, You raise an interesting view, but I would like to point out that it will say ADOPTED even if it is the mother that adopted the child. So it is not tied to the father, but rather the software takes the non-biological relationship to mark the Parental Link column. I have not seen any program that can handle our modern day, mixed and matched families. I think it needs to be some 3 or 4 dimensional chart (there fore not able to print on paper). Alan Jones Mission Viejo, Calif. -----Original Message----- From: Beverly [mailto:kngsldy@cableone.net] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 5:01 PM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Re: Biological/adoptive parents - again! I think I have waded through all the e-mails on this subject but suspect that somewhere in there I may have missed something, so I am going to post my question - "my" question because it is my family group sheet I'm discussing. I married, had a son and divorced. I have a fgs with my son, his biological father and me as mother. Fine; no problem. After I remarried, my second husband adopted my biological son. ( I state "biological" because I also have a "sealing" son as a result of this second marriage, but that's another subject, isn't it?) So now my second fgs shows my biological son as "adopted" which is correct as far as his adopted father is concerned. However, he is still my biological son and I have simply accepted the fact the the fgs in PAF is designed to show relationship to fathers, not mothers. Do I like this? Not particularly; I would like to see a designation such as "adopted/biological" as an option but until that happens (if it ever does), I just make certain my notes are full and complete of explanations. If anyone has a better way, please let us all know. I know I'm not the only mother who has this situation. Beverly -- Mailto:kngsldy@cableone.net Families are Forever! ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS

>I have not seen any program that can handle our modern day, mixed and >matched families. Ancestral Quest allows you to set a different parent-child relationship for each parent. It is a simple thing to do. This was a feature in Ancestral Quest, a scaled-down version of which later became PAF 4, so you know how long ago that was. Unfortunately that feature was one that was not included in what they gave the Church for PAF 4. Joan Lowrey

Alan Jones at home wrote: > Beverly, > > You raise an interesting view, but I would like to point out that it > will say ADOPTED > even if it is the mother that adopted the child. So it is not tied to > the father, but > rather the software takes the non-biological relationship to mark the > Parental Link column. The "adopted"/"biological" link appears to be the child's relationship to the Union, not to an individual within that Union. All children are the result of a Union -- whether that Union is male/female or female/test-tube. > I have not seen any program that can handle our modern day, mixed and > matched families. Ummm, may I clear up that little myth? (GBG) Unless you're using "modern" in the historical sense that makes a distinction between Ancient and Modern, blended families aren't a "modern" phenomenon. I have families back in the 1700s where Bob marries Sally and has issue; Bob's sister marries Harry, who is a widower with 3 rug-rats, and she has 3 more before Harry dies; Sally's brother Fred married Ethel and had issue before Ethel dies with the last one, and Fred then marries Bob's sister and their family now consists of 3 kids not related to either of 'em, 3 related to Sis, 3 related to Fred, and oops, next year there's 1 related to both of 'em. Time spins on and Harry's youngest marries Bob's oldest and their grandchild marries Ethel's grandchild. Yeah, actually I DO have something like that, only I have a nagging suspicion I've forgotten a step about Ethel .. > I think it needs to be some 3 or 4 dimensional chart (there fore not > able to print on paper). Indeed. (g) As a friend says, some sentences can't be diagrammed on a flat surface. Cheryl