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Subject: Re: [TMG] 5.02 relationship tags
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:42:41 EDT


In a message dated 7/1/02 1:45:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
writes:


> I just don't see the need.
> There could be both natural and step and/or adopted children for the
> parents.
>
> Sounds confusing
> Jo
>
>
>

Jo that is exactly why I want to change the current mother father tags. It
is confusing. Say I make the step father the primary father since he raised
the child. I also know who the birth father is. Both fathers are linked on
the person view of the child. But if you look at it, the step father is
marked as Father and the birth father is marked as Father-Bio. HUH? What I
am proposing would be to make the Father tag in this case say Father-stp, and
everyone would know that you had made the step father the primary father.
This may not matter to you if you follow straight genealogy, but what about
candidate parents? I have a tag called Father-CAN. It is for men I think
(and have reasonable reason to think this) are the fathers of certain
children. It would be nice on the person view of those children to see the
father as Father-CAN indicating that this father is NOT the actual proven
biological father of the children, but an assumption.
Teresa Ghee Elliott
<A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/">Rutherford County, TN Cemeteries</A>

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