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From: "Martin Jackson" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] TMG v5.04 - Adoptions
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:32:50 -0000
In-Reply-To: <KBEEJNHPFAMCGLNKDFEFMEAJGNAA.richard@damon.name>


Thankyou, Richard and now Teresa,
I believe this is another in the series of Genealogy v Family History
<g>
I had wished to record ALL of the known events for my daughter-in-law,
[with her approval, of course!] i.e. Birth; Natural Parents; Placement
for Adoption; Adoptive Parents; Name Change; etc. etc.
It looks though that I may be able to do this with Teresa's Adoption
Tags, which I will investigate later today. Meantime I shall record
D-in-L's Adoptive parents as Primary and not, with exclusions, the
Natural line, until I get it all sorted out.
Thanks again


Kind Regards... Martin Jackson in a sunny Perthshire, Bonnie Scotland.
Researching BULL; HOLLOWAY; JACKSON & TIPPER in Derbyshire.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard, Barbara & Robbie Damon [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:55 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] TMG v5.04 - Adoptions

The tags that should be used for the adoptive parents would be a -Ado
relationship tag, plus a adoption event. Relationship tags never have
dates.
One minor annoyance is that in the parents view, the Daughter-Ado tag
will
show with a date, but rather then the adoption date, it will be her
birth
date.

Currently TMG will only show primary relationship, so you will need to
decide which you want on a given report. It is possible to go in and
changed
which ones are primary between reports (but I admit it will be
inconvenient).

The limitation appears to come from the fact that traditionally
genealogy
has focused on blood lines, so all the standard report formats are
geared
that way. TMG allows treating a non-blood relationship as if it was
blood
for these purposes, but this is still not optimal. If some people
could work
out a fairly general way to handle non-blood relationships, and how
they
should appear in a number of reports, a proposal could be made to Bob
to get
it added. This might be something worth discussing in the annex if
people
are really interested.

Richard Damon
--
(Genealogy)
(Home)
(Work)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Jackson [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:14 PM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] TMG v5.04 - Adoptions
>
>
> Hello Listers,
> I am struggling with Adoptions.
> My daughter-in-law was adopted, at the time of her marriage we were
> only aware of her adoptive parents names, but subsequently we have
> been able to trace her natural parents, siblings and one
grandparent,
> a new family!
> I had entered her details into my project as her name at the time of
> her marriage. Now with the new information I would like to put her
to
> her natural family and then enter her Adoption details, now to hand.
> I have put her Mother-Bio & Father-Bio in, with details taken from
her
> newly acquired Birth Certificate, I can assign Adoption Tag but
there
> seems to be no method of assigning the Adoptive Parents [previously
in
> the project as Parents]. The Father-Ado & Mother-Ado tags don't
appear
> to have a date function, and do not appear on either the Individual
> Narrative Report or the Descendant Indented Narrative Report.
> I favour the use of Roles if possible but have not been able to
> implement this either - any suggestions, please?
>
> Kind Regards... Martin Jackson in a snowy Perthshire, Bonnie
Scotland.
> Researching BULL; HOLLOWAY; JACKSON & TIPPER in Derbyshire.
>
>
>
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