vSVN-5000+ Problem with Step families
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#2519 vSVN-5000+ Problem with Step families
there have been several recent (including just before v4.2 release) changes in relationships and functions.
Step-families have seemed to disappeared.
In this example, none of Martha Baird's children with William Adams appear on John Bartmess's pages.
------ from a HELP FORUM posting by DOC--------
OOPS
Actually the wrong example, but the honest truth is that v4.2 is not showing Step-Children and previous marriages of wives.
For instance, Martha Baird's previous marriage and children with William Adams are not showing with John Bartmess
http://myarnolds.com/individual.php?pid=I54974&ged=Arnold.ged
We'll submit the bug report with your name as well.
-Stephen
Not sure if its related (nd I can't remeber exactly what was tere before latest changes) But I have a family where the new father is correctly describes as "step-father", but siblings are "Half-brother" etc. Shouldn't children of a step-father be "Step-sister"?
Looking at my own (complicated!) family, I see my father's first wife and my mother's second husband, both correctly described as "step-parents". I See children from both these relationships correctly described as "half-siblings".
If you think something isn't showing, can you supply a gedcom extract or URL?
Greg
If you review your FATHER's Close Relatives Tab, what title is showing for your mother's children by the other father? Better yet, as your situation may not be appropriate, what we are discussing is the children of the spouse who has been PREVIOUSLY married and fathered/mothered children in that relationship. Those children are not showing at all on the 2nd spouse's page, let alone showing as Step-Children, as they should, IOHO.
That's why I furnished the INDI like in the original bug report and described the problem. Martha Baird Adams children with William Adams fail to show on Martha's 2nd husband's C/R tab and we believe they should appear as his step-children.
We have many other examples where there are children by two or three previous marriages and none show on the later spouse's close relatives tab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepfamily
"In a simple stepfamily, only one stepparent has a prior child or children. Usually this is thought of in terms of minors, but the children of a stepfamily can also be adults. Stepbrothers and stepsisters exist in a blended, or complex stepfamily. In any case, any subsequent children conceived through the new marriage are one's half-siblings instead of stepsiblings, being related through one blood line, that of the one biological parent. Having a new child does not change the identity of a stepfamily, nor does legal stepchild adoption."
Stephen
As an update, and to further complicating the current display of siblings, PGV v4.2 and prior list all non-full siblings as 1/2 siblings rather than 1/2 brothers/sisters and step-brothers/sisters, and to complicate it further, we have a question of ex-stepparent and ex-stepsiblings if there is a divorce of the subsequent stepfamily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother
Stephen