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From: Diana Powell <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] 5.02 relationship tags
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 08:14:37 -0700
References: <87.1da5502a.2a520ab1@cs.com> <00cc01c221d0$0564c700$c18786cb@good>


> 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?

Teresa, and Jo

> 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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