* V6 Descendant Outline - how to remove step children/parents?

[HYoung]

I have a woman recorded with two marriages and one child, the first relationship produced a biological child but the second partner raised the child from a young age and this is reflected by recording the relationship as step. When the descendant outline report is produced the second spouse is shown also as the father of the child and her descendants are repeated along with all their information. Is there a way to produce a descendant outline report showing only that the first relationship produced a biological child and the second partner raised the child (no descendant information needed) or alternatively the first relationship produced a biological child and then the individual remarried? Thank you for your assistance, this report is required for a client quite urgently so any suggestions/solutions would be greatly appreciated.

[LornaCraig]

Because you have the daughter linked to both family records, she is appearing twice in the descendant outline report. I think the only way to prevent this is to unlink the daughter from the second family (with the family displayed in the Focus window, right click on the daughter and select unlink).

You may still want to indicate in some way that the second husband raised her as his own, and this could be recorded in a note against the second marriage. If the daughter was known by the second husband's surname you could add this as an alternate surname for her (use more... next to her name in her Property Box).

[HYoung]

Thanks for your advice Lorna, I thought that might be the case. Unfortunately, that seems to defeat the purpose of being able to define the relationship to parents as step, adopted, biological etc. I was impressed with this feature but it is disappointing to not be able to use it if it charts these relationships as biological repeating all the descendants of the step-child. It's great to be able to see in the focus window clearly how somebody was raised by non-biological parents and this is very common in the data set I am working with as adoption is common among Indigenous communities.

Any other suggestions would be helpful - I did notice in the diagrams you have the flexibility to hide various lines of descent but this feature is not available in the descent outlines.

[tatewise]

I think you have a good point.

However, I suggest the solution does not need to rely on the child relationship.
If you create a Descendant Diagram for the same families, then the duplication is automatically detected by default, and a coloured ribbon links any duplicated Individual box to their original box, regardless of the child relationship.
Reports could do the same, so when a duplicate Individual is listed, it back-refers to their earlier entry in the Report and inhibits their descendant details. There could be a Report Option to disable this feature, as there is for Diagrams. The advantage of this technique is that it works for all forms of duplication, such as married cousins, and does not need the child relationship.

This enhancement should be suggested to Calico Pie via support@family-historian.co.uk because the potential duplication in a Report could be massive especially if 100 Generations is chosen.