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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: Step children tags
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 22:14:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000f01bfb793$dd76f720$b2f383c2@rmlaw>


Dick Law wrote:
>I have created custom tags in the Relation Group for Father-Ste, Mother-Ste
>etc for step children of one parent in a second marriage.

The -Ste tags are standard tags as provided with TMG.

>The children have either birth or baptisms dates from the first marriage.
>When you view the Subject Child person details, the Father-Ste or
>Mother-Ste tag date is completely blank and cannot be edited.
>
>When you view the Subject Step Parent person details the Son-Ste or Daug-Ste
>tag has the date of original birth or baptism displayed whichever is
>primary.

This is normal. The date shown on the parent's Person View is derived from
the child's Primary Birth Group tag (if any). Even if a child is
adopted, the child's birth date never changes.

>What I had hoped to do was display the date when the step relationship
>became legal ie. from the date of the second marriage of one parent and this
>would appear when looking at either the Child or the step parent in addition
>to the already existing Birth / baptismal dates.
>Can this be done in any way?...do I need an additional tag of some
>description or am I going about it in a totally wrong way??

Yes it can be done. If it were an adoption case, you probably wouldn't
have to ask and you would have added the ADOPTION tag to the child and
added the adoptive parents as Witnesses. In this case, you can still use
the ADOPTION tag but you will want to adjust the Tag and Witness Sentences
to conform to the situation.

Hope this helps -


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