There are two posts somewhat similar to your suggestion: Probables or Possibles Child and/or adopted by father or adopted by mother.

Suggestions are welcome.

I would also appreciate this possibility for indicating "possible/probable" children as I also use the census returns for my England research on line.

England only has the BMD Indexes whereas Scotland also has the images of the full BMD Entries showing parents and full dates and places at Scotlands People though this is not free.

I have many entries in my tree that are taken from Census images or extracts that I would like to indicate as "possible" with a broken line different from "adopted" or "foster"

I am preparing for my major Christmas update of my trees.

A (interim?) solution could be to define two Custom Tags for Pedigree Links, CertaintyLevel & CertaintyParent. The first would have values 0=definite (default), 1=probably, 2=possibly, 3=perhaps. The second tag indicates about which parent the uncertainty exists : 0=father,  1=mother, 2=both.

These would be translated via the Dictionary when generating a Narrative Report. So we would have:

Jane's father is possibly John Doe and her mother is Mary Bloggs.

or if CertaintyParent=2 and level=1

Jane's father is probably John Doe and her mother is probably Mary Bloggs. 

On the parents page maybe the child's name under the Children subsection could be qualified with the uncertainty level e.g.

Jane Doe (John Doe is possibly her father)

It would be nice to show a probable link as a dotted line. But although GenoPro allows you to make a dotted line (i.e. foster link) solid, contrarily it does not allow a solid line to become dotted! It would be better if the 'solid line' check box in the Pedigree Link Properties was ticked when the line is solid by default, and allow the user to uncheck it to produce a dotted line when required.

I haven't yet got my head round all these CustomTags so would prefer it to be a part of GenoPro with an option in the pedigree link drop down menu. It would be a lot simpler for the less technically minded like me.

I am more in favor of a separate link because there is a lot of heavy code already under the current Pedigree Link.  The current pedigree link is the backbone to locate parents, children, siblings, ancestors and descendants.  Changing the internal structure of the current pedigree link is quite a task and risky.  On the other hand, a new type of object, similar to the pedigree link is much easier.  Also, it would be easier to query those "probable children" by just quering how many such links are connected to an individual.

rgds,

Ronald

This way it is clear that the first child is not issue of the father of the other children.

I would like to see a simple alternative to "adopted" or "foster" showing the pedigree link as a normal one but with a differently coloured dotted line which gives the title "possible child" or "possible parents" when the report is generated.

At the moment I have to colour the pedigree link red and add a text box to indicate that this colour indicates an unsure link for the svg and add some comments to each person.

Perhaps the "foster" line could be renamed "probable child" and given a red dotted line, as foster children are usually short term and not related to the host family and whose details could be added to the comments if desired, whereas adopted children become a permanent part of the new adoptive family.

Fostering is more a social relationship than a family one, to my mind, as there is no permanent link.

This could save making major changes perhaps?

Adding an extra item named "Probable Child" to the pedigree list is very trivial.

Very smart.  The "foster child" relationship was in early version, before the social relationship was there.  A foster child is indeed more a social relationship than a pedigree link.

Yes indeed.  It is always nice to have users posting suggestions.  Multiple brains is better than a single brain - for sure! :

This is the sort of problem you get from old parish registers (only IGI transcript so far - originals might help). I have used the position on a GenoMap to indicate probable family connection. In some other cases I have added an emotional link to show possible linkages, or used the Foster child link which can be coloured, although the pattern is fixed.

One problem here is that there are two possible parents for Thomas Gibson; one record from 1730 and the other from 1735. It is possible to show this either by linking child as foster child or parent to the known marriage (and ignore warning message). The following image shows both versions

Would it take long to do this change to the "foster child" link ? I would like to be able to correct these problems in my tree before I update my web trees this Christmas:

IainTait (11/22/2007)

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Would it take long to do this change to the "foster child" link ? I would like to be able to correct these problems in my tree before I update my web trees this Christmas:

I can add new features to GenoPro 2007, but cannot change anything to GenoPro 2007 to honor compatibility with others using GenoPro 2007.  I will need to write code to migrate all "foster children" from a pedigree link to a social relationship in order to make room for the "probable child".  Before doing this wowever, I want to make sure it is the right thing to do.

Early versions of GenoPro Gamma could include the "probable child" link, so you can test it and see if you like it and it gives the results you want.  We may discover other side effects of such a link, such as a child having multiple parents and so on.

I have a questions regarding foster child.  Typically a foster child is taken care by a family; not an individual.  So the foster child would still be more a special pedigree link than a social relationship.  At the moment the social relationship can link only individuals and/or social entities together, however cannot link the family object.

A possible/probable child pedigiree link is still required. It could be re-inforced where require with a social relationship indicating the possible/probable parent. I suggest possible is used when there is more than one candidate for a parent.

When can we expect this first Gamma version ?