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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] How do you print narrative report of ancestors with all spouses AND all of their children?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 21:35:39 -0500
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Verminator, can you all please stop trying to rewrite what is a family, and
tell me how to do what I want to do.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX

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Subject: Re: [TMG] How do you print narrative report of ancestors with all
spouses AND all of their children?


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>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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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