Relationships
my grandmother married after my dad was born. making him my step-grandfather. is there a way to have his relatives show a relationship to me when I look at an individual on his family tree?
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If you add your step-grandfather as an additional parent (along with your grandmother) to your father, then that relationship can be used to calculate relationships to you. Family Tree always calculates the shortest relationship to you, so it may or may not use that relationship when you determining if how you are related to a particular person.
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You can have all types of parents linked to a child: the biological, the step, adoptive, guardian, etc. The good thing about doing that is you can then see all of the step or half siblings under the correct parents and it gives a very nice organization to what otherwise might be confusing. However, the downside is that people are going to be offered up to you as relatives when in fact they are not. I am always disappointed at the RootsTech relative finder. One of my great grandmothers lost her mother around age 2 and was raised by others who are attached to her in a guardian relationship. After that same great grandmother passed herself, my great grandfather remarried. I always find descendants of both the guardians and the step mother as related to me and it irritates me so much I have finally removed the step relationship. The guardian relationship is still there because it is invaluable information, but at least half the "close" relatives will be gone this year. It really irritates me that I have to remove the step relationship because that woman was fantastic. She was a wonderful grandmother and great grandmother and I have lots of photos of her. I don't mind that all these relative finders treat no relationship as biological. That is usually a correct assumption. But when you go out of your way to indicate NO biological relationship, those lines should be ignored, or at least optionally included, in my opinion.
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@DonaldSmith592 mod note: For you privacy, your post was edited to remove your contact information. Please see the Community Code of Conduct.
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