Robin Kaspar "assumed": > I would think that using the “step” tag for the children/step-parent > would prevent those children from showing up on a journal report > looking like full, biological children of both parents. As Terry replied your assumption is incorrect, if the Relationship tag is made Primary, TMG will treat it as the genetic link. These cosmetic labels are only for viewing, but can be helpful for non-Primary tags. > For example, my aunt married a widower with two children. I have > input them both as step-son and step-daughter... But I have them > input as the biological children of my uncle’s first wife. > In a journal report they are listed as the only known children > of my aunt and her husband. I would guess that is because you made her their Primary mother? > How do other people handle this? Is this something I’m just > going to have to deal with using memos or an anecdote-like tag > to explain the relationship? Basically, yes. I always use Primary Relationship tags for biological parents, so the two children would have their biological mother as the Primary mother Relationship. But essentially your aunt "adopted" her husband's two existing children, or became their "Guardian", when she married him. It may not have been a legal action in a court, but that is the result. Since this occurs so often in my lines I have several custom tag types to deal with the various permutations of these complex relationships. For a full background of my thinking see the introduction to my Adoption custom tag types in the "Custom Tag Type Descriptions" chapter of my on-line book: http://www.mjh-nm.net/TAGCUSTM.HTML#Adoption In your particular case I would use my "Guardian" custom tag type described here: http://www.mjh-nm.net/TAGCUSTM.HTML#GuardianTag And its sentence templates are here: http://www.mjh-nm.net/SENTENCE.HTML#GuardianSentences In your specific case I would enter the aunt as the only Principal to the Guardian tag with the role "Guardian", and would link both children as Witnesses with the role "ward". The memos would explain that she became their guardian when she married their biological father. Hope this gives you ideas, Michael

Thanks MIchael, I’ll look into this. My own brother was adopted by my parents, and I’m also looking for a solution that keeps him in the journal report but makes it clear about the adoption. > On Jun 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Michael J. Hannah via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Robin Kaspar "assumed": >> I would think that using the “step” tag for the children/step-parent >> would prevent those children from showing up on a journal report >> looking like full, biological children of both parents. > > As Terry replied your assumption is incorrect, if the Relationship tag > is made Primary, TMG will treat it as the genetic link. These cosmetic > labels are only for viewing, but can be helpful for non-Primary tags. > >> For example, my aunt married a widower with two children. I have >> input them both as step-son and step-daughter... But I have them >> input as the biological children of my uncle’s first wife. > >> In a journal report they are listed as the only known children >> of my aunt and her husband. > > I would guess that is because you made her their Primary mother? > >> How do other people handle this? Is this something I’m just >> going to have to deal with using memos or an anecdote-like tag >> to explain the relationship? > > Basically, yes. I always use Primary Relationship tags for biological > parents, so the two children would have their biological mother as the > Primary mother Relationship. > > But essentially your aunt "adopted" her husband's two existing children, > or became their "Guardian", when she married him. It may not have been > a legal action in a court, but that is the result. Since this occurs so > often in my lines I have several custom tag types to deal with the > various permutations of these complex relationships. For a full > background of my thinking see the introduction to my Adoption custom tag > types in the "Custom Tag Type Descriptions" chapter of my on-line book: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/TAGCUSTM.HTML#Adoption > > In your particular case I would use my "Guardian" custom tag type > described here: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/TAGCUSTM.HTML#GuardianTag > > And its sentence templates are here: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/SENTENCE.HTML#GuardianSentences > > In your specific case I would enter the aunt as the only Principal to > the Guardian tag with the role "Guardian", and would link both children > as Witnesses with the role "ward". The memos would explain that she > became their guardian when she married their biological father. > > Hope this gives you ideas, > > Michael > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message