Genealogy, which is where most family trees are used, seems to be about bloodlines more than anything else.
Only direct blood relationships are tracked as parent/child. Other types of relationships (adoption being one) are typically handled as "events", or meta data about a person or persons. Besides adoption, examples of other "relationships" I have in my tree are witnesses at marriage, employer/employee, friendship, duels (I have only one so far), twins (a special sibling notation). On 9/28/06, Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/09/06, Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Isn't this just > interesting, Jerry pointed the opposite truth as well. > Merge the mother and father to a family to create a single entity. > > --- > > but what if a child has more than one parent? If a child has been adopted > etc and wishes to show both biological and adoptive parents? > > > -- > Nick Tong > > web: http://talkwebsolutions.co.uk > blog: http://succor.co.uk > short urls: http://wapurl.co.uk > green link: http://wapurl.co.uk/?4Z2YDLX > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254588 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
