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From: Joe Makowiec <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Stepmother?
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 22:20:06 -0500
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At 03:30 PM 1-1-2002 -0600, Gale Gorman wrote:
>...my main interest is my mother's stepmother. She didn't have children
>of her own but was the only mother my mother knew.

Your call, but:

Add a Mother-Ste tag, pretty much as you would add any other tag. Be sure
you carefully source it, and include information in the memo field to
indicate that this is a step relationship. When you get to printing
reports, you can opt to include relationship memos, so that this
relationship will be explained.

Then hit "OK" (the big green check), which will result in the tag being in
your mother's tag box. Now, click on the asterisk "*" button, and
stepmother's tag becomes the primary mother.

Note the implication of this: now, all ancestral reports for your mother
(and you) will show her stepmother's line, rather than her biological
mother's. For that matter, the "tree view" will show the stepmother's line
rather than the biological mother's. As far as I'm aware, there's no way
to show both lines, short of generating two separate reports to a word
processor, and cutting and pasting in the second line.

I have a similar situation to this. Three of my cousins were orphaned at
an early age. They were adopted by their father's brother and his wife,
who were otherwise childless. I have contemporary evidence (a letter)
indicating that they considered the aunt and uncle as parents, so I have
made the aunt and uncle the primary parents for these children.



Joe
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