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From: "Joan Thomas" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] 5.02 relationship tags
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:39:22 -0700
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Along with Teresa and Terry, I'd like to cast my vote for this feature as
well!

Joan


> >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
>
> I am glad you are beating this drum, Teresa. Last September, I suggested
the following:
>
> Problem 3. If you make the Father-Ado (or Mother-Ado) link primary,
> the fact that the link is an adoptive link becomes totally invisible
> to the user looking at the screen views for the adopted child. On the
> Person View, the father is identified only by the button at the
> bottom, which says "FATHER" and gives no indication that this
> relationship is an adoptive relationship. The only way the user could
> ever notice that this is an adoptive relationship is by clicking on
> the "Father" button as if he were going to edit it. On the Family
> View, the adoptive father is only identified as "Father" and there is
> no way to tell otherwise from that view. On the Tree View, there is no
> indication that the person in the father slot is anything other than a
> biological father, and there is no way to tell from that view.
>
> I suggest this change: Whenever a parent/child relationship is not
a
> biological relationship, text should be added that states what the
> relationship is. Thus on the Person View, the "Father" button would
> say "Adoptive Father." If the relationship was some other custom
> relationship created by the user, the text box would read according to
> a "label" field the user filled in when he created the custom
> relationship tag.
>
> The Tree View would also incorporate these modifications...
>
> The full text is at:
>
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/T/TMG+2001+
1987834350309+F
>
> To those who have responded to you saying they like it the way it is,
there is no reason
> the screen could not simply say "father" for the 99% of the cases where it
is the biological father, and change only
> when needed.
>
> Ted


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