[Gramps-users] How do other genealogy program handle adoptions?

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

When dealing with GEDCOM import, I have found that different programs do
things different ways. In particular, adoptions seem to be a problem.

Some programs do not support a family where a child is the natural child
of one parent and the adopted child of another. PAF (Personal Ancestral
File) is a good example of this. Other programs support these
relationships, but cause problems on GEDCOM export. Family Tree Maker is
a good example of this (it marks the relationship to both parents as
adopted in the GEDCOM file unless you tell it to export a GEDCOM for
Family Tree Maker, in which case it uses custom tags instead of the
standard tags to indicate parent/child relationships).

So, as a general question - What other programs do you use, and can they
support an "Adopted" relationship to one parent of a family and
"Natural" to the other?

If you can, please send me a sample GEDCOM file exported by the tools.
Create a database with only 3 entries - a father, mother, and child.
Mark the child as a natural child of the father and an adopted child of
the mother.

This will help me to make sure I can import information properly from a
wide range of tools. It will also help me generate GEDCOM output
compatible with the other programs that you use.

Thanks

Don


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