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From: "Gale Gorman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Stepmother?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:22:49 -0600
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Thanks, Joe.

Gale Gorman
Houston

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Makowiec" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Stepmother?


> 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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