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From: Richard Brogger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Step children
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 16:10:45 -0500
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Hi Dennis,

My opinion is that you should be able, at your option, to include
step, adopted, foster and other non-biological relationships and
have them clearly marked as what they are. Bob insists that any
report or chart that contains non-biological relationships not look
like any existing genealogy report or chart. Since your report
looks like any other Descendants Journal Narrative and contains
non-biological relationships there is, IMO, a major flaw in TMG.

You can detach the children from Doug but I would prefer to edit the
report so that it shows the relationship correctly.

Richard Brogger

Dennis Davenport wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I printed a Descendants Journal Narrative report for my and my cousin's
> ancestor. In generation five, my cousin Doug and his wife are shown as
> having children when the children are set up with step-son and daughter tags
> under Doug (they are not Doug's biological kids).
> Why are these step kids listed as descendants of our ancestor when there is
> no blood relationship?
> Does TMG not distinguish between children and step-children?
> Do I just need to manually exclude these step kids from printing if I want
> to have step-child tags under Doug?
>
> Thanks for any help here.
>
> Dennis D
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