I know I can check ‘not a problem’, in this situation, but I am wondering if this should even be appearing in the list.
I have a person that is being marked as ‘born before parents marriage’. This person’s mother was previously married, and after his father died, his mother remarried. I have the relationship set to ‘step’ as even though the person went by his step-father’s surname, I believe (but not sure) that he was adopted by the ‘step’ father. I did try changing the type to ‘adopted’ to see if that corrected the ‘problem’ but it didn’t.
I am questioning if this should actually have been flagged as a problem. Yes, he was born before his mother married his step/adoptive father, but that (to me) is ok as long as you have the type’s correctly set. The same situation should apply if a person was born and the adoptive parents were married but after the child was born, but before the child was adopted.
Is there a specific way to change the settings for this situation?
Yes, I could, but then I would get the problem when it is actually a problem. I know I can check ‘not a problem’, it’s just I don’t think that this should show as a problem at all.
Do you have marriage dates for each of the mom’s marriages?
This problem, without knowing any dates, tells me that there is a marriage date for the mom & stepdad so the kids birthday would be before their marriage and thus trigger the “problem”.
I think you are asking it to guess or assume it is not a problem with info it was not provided and does not have. I suppose you could have an enhancement to ignore non birth parent or similar. If you would like something like that – you could ask for the details to have this screen tweaked to what you need.
That would work, although as a retired programmer this option would be complex (changing display, editing etc). I see another option of the code checking if both parents are set to ‘birth’, rather than just the parents marriage date. Thanks for the comment
I would venture a guess that there’s a pretty fair portion of folks who do not even use that feature. It doesn’t appear in many lists/reports and doesn’t transfer well into or out of this program.
I know this is old, but I’m just now reading it. I have the same situation in my data. I listed the child under the birth father, since that’s his dna, and in the notes stated that he was adopted by the step father and took the step father’s surname.
Hey @RuthM Just hit NOT a problem and it won’t show up again until you rerun the list – may NOT even show up then—I understand that you marked him as adopted under the step father BUT using adopted, step or any other designation besides birth BASICALLY does NOTHING except let you know that this was NOT their birth parent-- and since you attached him as a child under the stepfather, when you run a report , it will show the stepfather the same as a father
It’s unfortunate that the development never went further than setting the flag for the relationship type. It is not even factored into lineage charts and relationship calculations. Those are long outstanding enhancement requests.
