Discovered some overlooked blended family sibling relationship seem to be ignored while trying to update the screen shot for the Sibling Quickview. In the example of Jasper Ball, the Siblings where he is explicitly a child. It does not include the implicit step-sibs ot half-sibs from his father’s other marriages.
Here are the Siblings expected for a child of Matthias Ball, Jr. in the example.gramps tree. (It only illustrates children of the birth Father, not the birth mother or adoptive/step/foster mothers.)
The QuickView works ok for me, showing children from all families in which the active person is a child, although the active person shows up once for each family:
There should be no change needed, once you ensure that each family contains all of the children you consider to be siblings of each other, within the context of that family. This does not mean that all of the children should be in all of the families. (For example, if a child from family A was given up for adoption, and adopted by family B, you would probably not consider the other children in family A and the other children in family B to be siblings of each other, and so you would not include those children in each other’s families.)
The only problem I find in my examples above is the repetition of any children that occur in more than one of the families.
Which person is this? Did the family have to explicitly include all the steps and halves? Or did it look in the other Families associated with the parents? Notice that it also lists “self” twice. That isn’t right.
I’ve grown to think of the Children tab of a Family as those who where in the Household formed by the Relationship of the Partners/Parents. But the implicit relationships still exist. And I’d rather not have to laboriously plumb the depths of the multitude of families formed by multiple divorces and remarriages to discover them all.
It is like the Citations gramplet. The list of citations directly attributed to an object is useful. But it is available in the Source Citations tab of the object editors. I want Gramplet to compile a comprehensive list that includes citations linked to the secondary objects.
I guess our replies crossed each other. My example was from my own database.
Another thought: while full- and half-siblings are biologically determined, other types (step-, etc.) are socially determined (with or without some legal basis). So I suppose a half-sibling could also be a step-sibling?
No, I don’t think so, not necessarily. My grandfather had three full siblings. When the mother died young and the father left, the kids went several different ways. Meanwhile the father remarried and had two other kids by the second wife. Those were therefore my grandfather’s half-siblings, but there’s no evidence that they ever lived together or even knew each other. So I would not consider them to be my grandfather’s step-siblings. (And then the father divorced, moved away, and married yet again, to a woman who already had children. They had no further children together, and I don’t know whether her children were considered his step-children, but in no way would I think of them as being my grandfather’s step-siblings either.)
