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 -----Original Message----- From: E.Rodier [mailto:cerear@telusplanet.net] Sent: 04 June 2005 14:40 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Re: Acknowledging gay marriages in PAF PAF 5 is limited to the same relationship of a child to TWO parents. Some of the other genealogy programs allow individual child-parent relationships and use different GEDCOM tags. This means that a second marriage of a bio parent will have the wrong child-parent relationship for one of them if the child is attached to a blended family -- his kids, her kids, their kids. Sample file received from a PAF user had bio relationships for the father's marriages and adoptive for the mother's second marriage. Multiple sets of parents may show no relationships at all if a PAF GEDCOM is imported by programs using the individual parent relationships. If accuracy of relationships is important for GEDCOM file transfers, data entry should be limited to two bio parents for each child and other relationships explained in notes. Second best would be one set of parents for each child with an explanation if a child was shown as "adopted" by one of the bio parents. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen" > Is there something I'm missing here? I have been unable to show a child as > adopted by one member of a couple but the natural child of the other. > Adoption in PAF seems to always come out that the child is adopted by both > parents -- when I use the edit parents method. Is there another way to > approach this? ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/