Timeline feature should indicate non-biological relationships

LegacyUser

Heidi Marie Soderquist said: The timeline feature is nice, but I'd like it if it would specify the relationship type for the birth of a non-biological child. There are some cases where someone is not technically old enough to have given birth to their step or adopted child. If someone is only viewing the timeline page, this could be confusing.

I have my great grandmother attached to her step-father and on her details page it shows that it is a step relationship. But if I look at her step-father's timeline it does not differentiate between the births of his step and biological children. It simply says, "Birth of a child" for all of them. This really confused my grandfather when he got an email from FamilySearch encouraging him to look at the timeline for his ancestors. I told him I'd ask if you could fix it. Could you program the timeline to state the relationship type if it is something other than biological? Something like "Birth of step-child" would work.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: This request was recently made in this forum as part of a discussion thread on subsequent spouses. A day or so ago I separated that out of the discussion thread and started a discussion centered on that request. See the https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... discussion.

You've carried the idea one step further, whereas the original idea was only to indicate that the relationship was not biological.

The only time it would appear is on the non-biological person's timeline and only then if the person is included as a non-biological child to the couple relationship. That has to be entered by a user of the system. It isn't automatic.

Because the relationship has to be entered, even the non-biological relationship would not be flagged if no non-biological relationship existed.

The idea that it should show up on "View my Relationship" is another good idea, but only where the non-biological relationship existed between child and parent.

Hopefully, FamilySearch will pick this up as an expanded feature for the timeline, pedigree, and (View My) relationship views. I believe I have covered all the areas where it needs to be shown -- It is already in the Family Section, but not in the other features.