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From: Richard Brogger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Step children
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:51:21 -0500
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Bob Velke wrote:
>
> Richard said:
>
> >When I select a man as the primary father it is because I want him to
> >appear at the
> >bottom of the Person View with the primary mother. If by doing so I
> >will have step children appearing in charts and reports as
> >biological children, I consider that a flaw.
>
> OK. The program has features to produce the reports the way that you want
> them. If you insist on using those features for something else and then
> claim that they are flawed because you don't get the results that you want,
> then I guess that there's no talking you out of it.
>
> -Bob

Hi Bob,

If it were a matter of talking me out of something, it would be my
opinion. The message below was not someone's opinion and was not
written because someone knowingly used the features in an improper
manner. TMG made it extremely easy to produce a flawed report. If
Dennis were the one and only, then I might not have the opinion you
don't want to talk about but I would bet that it has happened to
hundreds of users. Maybe it is because we are all too dumb to use
the program as designed but I prefer to consider it a TMG flaw.

Richard

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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