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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Statistical Report - Part 2
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:18:55 -0400
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Sholder, Kevin L wrote:
>In reviewing this report and looking at the ID for the MIN and MAX I
>have found that step or adopted children become a part of the age at
>first child and age at last child categories. Should it not be only
>biological children for this to be accurate? For example I have a
>mother that had a "step" child at age 11, I know that age 11 is very
>young for children, but because I had a tag for a step child it give a
>false / positive result.

Keep in mind that while TMG is useful for creating a family history and is
way ahead of other genealogy programs, it still is really just a genealogy
program which is expecting biological relationships. You can fool TMG by
making an adoptiver/step/foster/etc child/parent relationship to be
Primary, but if you do then some reports may give somewhat odd results --
such as a child born two years before the adoptive parents were
married. That is why it is better to treat such relationships using
Adoption (or similar Custom) Tags for these situations. The Relationship
Calculator does not work for these cases, but they are usually the minority
anyway.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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