# Filter option for including only biological relatives

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/filter-option-for-including-only-biological-relatives/339>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [March 29, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/filter-option-for-including-only-biological-relatives/339 "2020-03-29T18:45:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/filter-option-for-including-only-biological-relatives/339/4 "2020-04-08T09:01:33Z")

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> [@GeorgeWilmes](#):
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> From the user perspective, it would be very simple: just a checkbox. But I imagine it would impact many places deep in the code. When selecting parents (or children) of a person, it would need to check for the “birth” relationship (child reference type?).

I’ll look into them. I’ve already added the same steps to my latest [filter rules](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/new-filter-rules-for-genetic-genealogy/352).

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