Report Generator 2014-04-10

Report Generator 2014-04-10

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By Nand - Wednesday, April 16, 2014

When translating the new entries of the version 2014.04.10 dictionary I noticed two groups of tags that have been introduced - I believe - in version 2013.09.22

<ChildIllegitimate_*
and
<ChildNatural_*

As far as I know, and according to both Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, illegitimate and natural mean the same thing: "born of parents not married to each other".

Could you clarify the situations where you would use the one or the other so that I can translate correctly?

I presume that in Genopro "natural" is meant to be "biological" or "not adopted". Is this what was intended?

Regards,
Nand

By genome - Wednesday, April 16, 2014

To be honest when a request was made to add this I had not heard of the word 'natural' being used to describe a child born 'out of wedlock' and looked it up.

I can well understand why families would not want a relative to be described as illegitimate as this word suggests unlawfulness when there is nothing unlawful about having a child when not married and so I am happy to have 'natural' as an alternative.

I therefore suggest it is left to the family researcher to decide which if any of the two adjectives are used to qualify the pedigree. In earlier years only illegitimate would have been used but in this modern age it is good to have a another way of putting it but I am not sure how many readers will understand what is meant by a 'natural child'.

Note that these adjectives only appear in a report when the Pedigree Link custom tag 'Qualification' has been used.