Well, replying to Nick, a child technically can only have one mother and father. In the tree, there is nothing that would prevent one man or woman having more than one family. The combination between the man and the woman would be the unique identifier. One child cannot really belong than more than one family. As Jerry also said, it is about blood lines. Even if you mother gets a divorce and has a new husband, the step-father is not in the bloodline of the child.
This is becoming academic at this point though of trying to cover every human element in reference to data for something that may not be as complex. Teddy On 9/28/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:254591 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
