Hello, I’m just venturing out into starting using reports and am trying to figure out the best way to show an adoption. I couldn’t find a clear answer to my exact question in the archives.
I have: Female child Ottilie WM born to Carl GE and Caroline WS, adopted by Johann HM and Wilhelmine MH. I entered “adopted” for Ottilie under the child-parent relationship links to Johann and Wilhelmine and “biological” under relationship link to Carl and Caroline. Ottilie is listed as a child I believe under each set of parents when I go to each parent’s family view. In the report options, I did check “show child-parent relationships”. On printing the Chronology report, for Johann HM, it looks like this: (location), Ottilie WM (dates), (Father: Adopted) (Mother: Adopted) daughter of Johann HM and Wilhelmina MH. . … This sounds confusing to me, like the parents are the ones that are adopted; is this the proper way to list it? Or is there a better way to arrange the information? On the family group record, It does list the same Father: Adopted, Mother: adopted on the same line as Child-Par relationship. I’m assuming this is the intended way to use the information but is there a better way to make it more clear to understand?(probably answer to both reports the same). And then, how do I show the biological parents on this report? I haven’t been able to understand any discussion of how to show both sets of parents in an easy way in a report. I would prefer to send the report in the Chronology format but maybe it’s better to use another type of report? If I do use the Family Group Record, is there a way to add some information on the Child-Parent relationship field to clarify the adoptive relationship? What do most people prefer to use in this particular situation? I’m sending this to a German relative that isn’t so good with English and want it to be as clear as possible. I’ve read that some people list adoption as an event, does that appear more clear in a report? Or should I just describe it in the notes section? Or something else? I welcome any suggestions as to what I’m missing or a better way to do this, or what report might be best to run. . .thanks so much, Pam Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
