Hello,
I’m just venturing out experimenting with printing reports and am interested in opinions as to the best way to show an adoption. I couldn’t find a clear answer to my exact question in the archives, and asked this question a few weeks ago and didn’t get a response, so will try rewriting the question again a different way: I’m sending this report to a relative in Germany so want it to be as clear as possible; my first choice would be to use the Chronology report format, but can see some advantages as well to the Family Group Record sheet, but the wording/layout in both seems confusing to me; it appears like this: I have: Situation; Female child Ottilie WM born to Carl GE and Caroline WS, adopted by Johann HM and Wilhelmine MH. 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. . … In the Family Group Report, I can’t tell easily if which parents were the adoptive and which were biological. I see it lists same Father: Adopted, Mother: adopted on same line as Child-Par relationship. In settings, I believe I followed the instructions carefully by entering “adopted” for Ottilie under the “set” child-parent relationship links to Johann and Wilhelmine and “biological” under relationship link to Carl and Caroline. In the report options, I did check “show child-parent relationships”. I want to make it more clear WHICH are the adoptive and which are biological parents. Is the above method the is only/best way to do this? Or is there a way to add text to the “set parent child relationship” field to add a description that would show up in the family group report? Or add something to notes? Make an event? Use a different report? Something else? Or maybe it’s more clear as it is to people than I think? What do most people prefer to use in this particular situation? I welcome any suggestions as to what I’m missing/misunderstanding or a better way to do this, etc. . .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 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
