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Subject: Re: [TMG] How do you print narrative report of ancestors with all spouses AND all of their children?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:33:17 +0000


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From: "Dora Smith" <>
> Folks, what is hard?!
>
> If your father remarries, the new mother and the step siblings aren't not
> members of your family!

Dora- socially they are members of your "family" but they are not blood kin and thus are not members of your genealogical family.

>
> My mother in law's mother in law grew up with her grandmother, who was not
> her ancestor, and her siblings, who were not children of her ancestor.
>

If her "grandmother" was not her ancestor then she was- by genealogical standards- *not* her grandmother but merely the second wife of her grandfather- a big difference.


> I want to list the entire family!
>


> And since they were FRench Canadians, most families were like that, all
> 2,000 of them.
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith

You can enter step relationships and have them act as if they were blood kin to cover the situation. Family Historians take this route although it tends to make the true genealogist's hair stand on end <grin>

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