# Marking someone as a step-child

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/marking-someone-as-a-step-child/15980>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** question, rootsmagic\
**Created:** [July 17, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/marking-someone-as-a-step-child/15980 "2026-07-17T03:11:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![JP1706](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@JP1706](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/JP1706)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/marking-someone-as-a-step-child/15980/1 "2026-07-17T03:11:41Z")

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Hi,

How do I mark someone as a step-child so that it is easy to see this relationship?

Thanks

John

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**Author:** ![MadDog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/maddog/32/313_2.png) [@MadDog](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/MadDog)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/marking-someone-as-a-step-child/15980/2 "2026-07-17T07:22:21Z")

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On the person Edit screen, highlight their parents and in the side panel you can see the Relationship to Father, Relationship to Mother - change it to fit the relationship.,

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**Author:** ![thejerrybryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/thejerrybryan/32/404_2.png) [@thejerrybryan](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/thejerrybryan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/marking-someone-as-a-step-child/15980/3 "2026-07-17T12:44:30Z")

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> [@JP1706](#):
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> … so that it is easy to see this relationship

The correct answer has already been given, but in my opinion marking relationships in this manner doesn’t actually do very much. If I want these kinds of relationships to show up in narrative reports, I add notes to describe the relationships.

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**Author:** ![kevync1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kevync1985](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevync1985)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/marking-someone-as-a-step-child/15980/4 "2026-07-17T18:30:47Z")

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on a Similar Note – I found one this week (first that I recall ) that was marked “Guardian” they were the grandparents - I believe I figured out the mother but the father is unknown and I never found either of the children with the mother (Cir `1900). In this case I added the (unconfirmed) bio mother and then the (confirmed) Guardians aka Grandparents – some of this is tracker by Census info but additional would help clarify those things