I enter information rather directly, just going person by person adding parents up the tree (i.e.back in time) one generation at a time. Like you I don't indicate anyone being a stepparent. If the status is or was relevant I would discuss it in a note. I'm sure one might want to use it for adoptions. I tried looking for a place to change the relationship status, but until I looked at the book, had no idea that dialog box existed. For those like me who have never seen it, one goes to "Tools", then "set relationships". Mine is automatically set to show the relationship to me at the bottom of the screen, which must be the default. I just tried looking at the box and it changed to the person I had on the screen. I then had to change back, and think I will not go there again! To see problems in your direct line, you could use the 6 generation pedigree view, and look at what shows up as you proceed from recent to older generations. If the pedigree is missing parents, it should be rather obvious I would think. Hopefully, you only have a few problems. I will be interested in seeing how others respond. I am always amazed at the features of the program I have never seen, although I work entering data most everyday. Margaret -----Original Message----- From: Kyla Bayang via Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2016 10:56 AM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [RMagic] Find relationship to either parent unknown. It seems I have accidently entered a bunch of people in my database with a relationship status to one or both parents as unknown, which I did not intend to do. Is there an easy way to create a report to search the relationship to father and relationship to mother fields, so that I know who I need to fix? Any idea how I did it wrong, so that I can prevent it in the future? I never even use that field, I always have it set to birth, unless I intentionally change it to adopted. I don't recall ever using any of the other settings for it. I don't typically add a stepmother or stepfather relationship to my records, does anyone else do that? How does it affect reports generated? Should I be doing that? I guess I've always thought that if there is a second marriage, someone could figure out that they're a stepparent?