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From: "Astrid Kranzbuhler" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] 5.02 relationship tags
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:53:51 +1000
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Hi all,
this is a second try to send this message. If it turns out to be duplicate,
my apologies.

Teresa wrote:
> 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

Hi Teresa,
I agree with you.

I, too, sometimes use Relationship tags other than -bio as primary and
would like to be able to see it on screen.

The fact is: Now I might remember, but what about in 5 or 10 years time? If
it is not a reasonably close member of our family, I might have forgotten
all about it and would need TMG to remind me, that, e.g., this father is
the step-father, not the biological one. Opening the tag probably wouldn't
even enter my mind then, because I'd assume it is -bio.
Especially if the biological father remains unknown (and possibly will be
forever) and the step-, adoptive-, whatever- father is the only one for
this person.

Of course, I wouldn't want the implementation to cause further delays for
the missing features in TMG 5.x, but it would be great if it was added
sometime in the not so far future.

Just my 2 cents worth
Astrid


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