Mike,
I would like the same thing, but I'm not aware of any way to do it. I've
just been going through the same thing. I've come to the conclusion that I
should make little use of the basic Descendant Chart report and depend more
on the Descendant Narrative report. It's not perfect, but at least those
statuses show up.
In either report, the child will show up twice if you are descending down
through the biological parent -- once for each marriage of that parent. For
the Descendant Narrative report, the child-parent status shows in the 'step'
case (or whatever explicit status you have assigned). If the step child has
children/descendants, make sure you check 'Don't repeat duplicate lines' for
the report format.
Be careful when assigning the second set of parents to the step child. You
need to 'select' the birth parents when closing the 'Parents of ..." panel.
Otherwise, the child might have the incorrect ancestry.
I had been shying away from creating multiple parents, leaning towards a
mostly biological ('genealogy') model, due mainly to these report issues.
However, more and more I find that relatives really want to see adopted and
step children as part of their family. (The 'family history' model.) Of
course the biological relationships are always available within the
database, even if certain reports are muddled.
BTW, your e-mail Subject line says 'Family Group Sheets'. This report does
show the statuses, unlike the Descendant Chart (and likewise the Legacy
Charting graphical descendant chart).
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Feldman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:27 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Step-children.... in Family Group Sheets
Hi all,
I'm a new Legacy user and just joined the list.
I found the stepchildren thread in the archive, and was able
successfully to set a stepson's status as "step". So far so good.
Those parents and stepson are part of a descendants report. In the
"report options -> descendant chart -> include" tab, "child status" is
grayed out, along with lots of other options. I thought perhaps those
were enabled in Legacy Deluxe, so I paid the upgrade fee and installed
it. But they're still grayed out.
I'd also like to indicate divorce situations on that descendant chart,
but "marriage status" is also grayed out.
Have I missed something somewhere that would turn those options on?
Thanks very much!
Mike Feldman, Portland OR
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