GenoPro Support Forum

Thanks, Roland

It is always difficult to have a visual representation of a change, whatever the individual changed his/her name, gender, address, martial status, social relationship or emotional relationship.  For instance, two individuals may be in love and now hate each other.  How to display the change of the emotional relationship?  I don't have an easy solution for this.

My suggestion would be using the most recent / current gender as the person currently lives and write a comment about it.  If you do a special genogram (family tree) of many individuals having gender changed, you may create a legend with a special color.

First he was a father and has own children with his wife, today she is a mother and has with her new husband new children (of course the children of her husband).  I think to use a special colour is not enough for clarification.

Roland

In this situation I think that using the 'Don't Know' option is a bit of a cop-out, as well as the fact that the '?' doesn't look very good in the Genogram.

I know we are very close to the final version, but is it possible to add another 'shape' as a miscellaneous or other category (as opposed to Male, Female, Pet and Don't Know)? The shape could be an octagon or something, and allow people to define it's function.

My other suggestion, using the program 'as-is', is to use the 'Pet' option. It doesn't define a gender, and the diamond shape is distinct enough to be seen clearly. Of course, you can only do this if you aren't including pets in your tree, and I don't know what happens if you generate a report!! (Would you get something like 'FemaleA married her Pet?)

Cheers,

John 

When a person has a sex change, it will usually be accompanied by a name change. It is practically a re-birth.  I agree that the person should be copied to a new genomap where their new relationships are to be stored. Then create the new person along-side the hyperlinked individual and connect by an emotional line.  The English Narrative Report will not see these people as one, but surely in reality they are not, surely it is as though one person stops living and another life starts. 

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

If I am correct, at present GenoPro ties certain information to an individual - Name(s), Dates (birth and death), Gender, Parents, Spouse(s) and Children, History - and when a hyperlinked individual is created this information is copied and cannot be edited without changing the original at the same time; display information can be changed independently (colours, displayed name, etc.).

As I see it, what is required is a new type of hyperlink where the Names and Gender of the hyperlinked individual are not tied to the original. This would need a new designation, and 'Alias' springs to mind. (I remembered this from v1 of GenoPro - I opened up v1.91b for the first time in years, and creating an alias I found you could change these parameters, but there seemed to be no link with the original individual - even the report showed them as 2 individuals.) You could then enter the new Names and/or Gender for the Alias, but all the other data for the individual would be retained. (I can't agree with poolzone that a sex change means a new life - perhaps a new beginning, but you can't lose the history of that person, at least not for genealogy purposes.)

For the purpose of the report there would probably have to be some sort of check box and comment on the Alias to designate what, why and when the change took place.

Just my thoughts for discussion.