Re: [Gramps-users] Entering An Adopted Child

[Peter G <sai...@ya...>]

Hmm.  My brother's adoptive father (mom's 3rd husband / brother's otherwise step father) shows up in ancestry view with a dashed line, while bio father (mom's 2nd husband) shows up with solid line. Different family member that was adopted shows up as a descendent of the adoptive parents when the adoptive parents are selected, but when viewing the kid, only the bio parents show up. 


Peter




>________________________________
> From: Brad Rogers <br...@fi...>
>
> 
>On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:34:57 +1100
>Robert Gibbins <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
>Hello Robert,
>
>> Thank you again for all your help. I hope I was able to follow your
>
>Again, you're welcome.
>
>>instructions correctly. Please correct me if anything doesn't seem
>>right.
>
>It's certainly not the easiest family structure to deal with, that's for
>sure.
>
>>sister were adopted. It was also news to me. As a result and having
>>already entered what I thought was the correct data on GRAMPS, I had to
>>make some changes. However, there was no straight forward instructions
>>or method for this age old problem.
>
>Sadly, family 'knowledge' is no substitute for hard facts.  Family
>knowledge I always treat as hearsay, until evidence is found to support
>the tale.
>
>> Having followed what you told me as best as I could the results were:
>
>It's quite possible I've got some of it wrong, as I don't have a similar
>situation in my tree from which I can draw from to assist.
>
>> 1. The adoptive parents don't seem to show up when you use the
>> 'Ancestry'
>>view.
>
>Why should they?  After all, there's no genetic link.
>
>>Latham Dowdle). In this case in the 'Individual View' the two names all
>>ran into together eg. Given: * **Peter Anthony John Latham* and
>>Surname: *Paynter Dowdle*. Selecting/changing between Type' Also Known
>>as or Birth Name seems to make no difference. I wonder if I have done
>>something wrong?
>
>I've never had that happen in my data, so don't know what to suggest to
>try and eradicate the error.
>
>> 3. I also got two duplicate family errors codes. I eventually removed
>> the earlier version of each.
>
>This sounds as though you entered something twice.  Again, difficult to
>know without knowing all the steps you took to create the new families.
>Still, it seems you've corrected the error.
>
>> Over the years I have been using genealogy programs I have read that
>>GEDCOM had some political problems: things the Church of the Later day
>>Saints felt they couldn't accept. A modern example, Gay Marriages etc.
>
>Gay marriages are, genetically speaking, a dead end.  Same sex parents
>cannot both contribute DNA to the one child.  As such, lineage follows
>only one of the parents (if any), in a similar way to illegitimate
>children, where no father is listed.
>
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