It looks as though you might need to input the girls against a different mother's name in your GEDCOM software? I mention this because I find the software doesn't help in certain relationship situations. Where a child has been adopted at birth for instance, one has to enter it twice to have it reflected to make any sense in an extracted Report. I have inserted my own name twice because it was changed by Deed Poll because my mother remarried. This is where we have to be more clever than the software we use. I guess someone will say their software knows how to cope with these situations and if that is so, it has been worth my while making mention of it. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "BRH" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Relationship Query. > Hello Valeria, > > Thanks for the reply to my query. I had done a relationship calculation > with Family Tree Maker and it said that the girls of this later marriage > were my 2nd great grand Aunts, but I felt this was not quite right. So > should they be my HALF 2nd great grand aunts, my 2nd HALF great grand > aunts or my 2nd great grand HALF aunts? It's kinda confusing. > > Barry Howard, > Vic. Australia. > > > > On 8/09/2011 11:23 PM, Valeria Greenwood wrote: >> Hello Barry, >> Yes, you are correct--they would be "half"--same father, different mother. >> I have many half cousins from my grandfather's first marriage. >> >> You say you are descended from the 2nd child by his first marriage. >> Whatever relationship you have determined for the sibling of your ancestor, >> then the children by the 2nd marriage would be the same--only just add >> "half" to the relationship, i.e. half third cousin, etc. Clear as mud?? >> >> Valeria Greenwood >> Nova Scotia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

Thankyou for that information Janet. Regards, Barry Howard, Victoria, Australia. On 9/09/2011 9:06 PM, Janet wrote: > It looks as though you might need to input the girls against a different mother's name in > your GEDCOM software? I mention this because I find the software doesn't help in certain > relationship situations. Where a child has been adopted at birth for instance, one has > to enter it twice to have it reflected to make any sense in an extracted Report. I have > inserted my own name twice because it was changed by Deed Poll because my mother > remarried. This is where we have to be more clever than the software we use. I guess > someone will say their software knows how to cope with these situations and if that is so, > it has been worth my while making mention of it. > > Janet