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From: "Gale Gorman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Stepmother?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:30:16 -0600
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Patt,

This will require some deciding since the ultimate report cannot show both.
The stepmother's extended family was not as close as the natural mother's
even though the natural mother died before my mother was two.

As I think back I can see a reason for this. On the stepmother's side, an
aunt and uncle were unmarried with no children, hence no cousins, etc. On
the natural side their extended families were pretty large and communicated
a lot.

Gale Gorman
Houston

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Stepmother?


> In a message dated 1/1/2002 1:29:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > What do I do with stepmothers?
> >
> > There are several in question but my main interest is my mother's
> > stepmother. She didn't have children of her own but was the only mother
my
> > mother knew.
> >
>
> Gale,
>
> It up to you. You can only have one primary mother you can specify the
> stepmother or the natural mother as primary. This is the one that will
print
> in charts and reports.
>
> e.g. on an ancestory report if you specify the stepmother then the
> stepmother's parents will appear as you mother's ancestor.
>
> I decide on a person by person basis which way to handle it. But I have a
> Parent-note tag (in the other group) that I use to cover the other parent.
>
> e.g. if I decided to make the natural mother the primary mother I would
add
> my parent note to read something like.
> Her stepmother, xxxx, raised her and was really the only mother she ever
> knew.
>
> But it's really up to you which way you want to handle the situation
>
> Patt Ricketts
> Redondo Beach, CA
>
>
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