What Is Child Status?
Assigning Child Status to a Child
Assigning More Than One Status To a Child
Child Status Settings
Creating a New Child Status
Naming a Child Status
Assigning Color To Status
Sensitive Child Statuses
Deleting a Child Status
Child Status and Importing Family Files
Child Status in Reports and Elsewhere
Examples of Child Status
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A child status describes the connection between a child and his parents. Examples of child status include: adopted, twin, stillborn, foster, illegitimate, out of wedlock, etc. Reunion lets you assign a child status to each child. Child status should not be confused with flags.
If you're displaying children as buttons in the family view, each child status has its own unique perimeter color, giving you a distinct visual clue. Also, by customizing the family view, the Child Status field may be included inside the child buttons. If you're displaying children in lists, one of the columns in the list can show child status.
In the example above, the child has been assigned an "Adopted" child status. Note the red border around his child button and the inclusion of the (Child) Status field inside his button.
If you're displaying children in lists, one of the columns in the list will show the child status.
Assigning Child Status to a Child
Before you assign a child status to someone, you must first navigate to the family record where he appears as a child. Then click the child's and pick a status from the submenu.
Or, choose
and choose the desired status using buttons in the Status column.
Assigning More Than One Status to a Child
A child button can only be assigned one status. However, if you need to indicate more than one status, you can create a new child status (or rename an existing unused status) so that it covers two attributes (for example, "Stillborn Twin"). See below.
Each child can be assigned one child status; however, Reunion lets you define an unlimited number of child status types. Each status can be associated with a button perimeter color. The first status type, None, is predefined by Reunion. You can define and pick a perimeter color for all other status types.
To create or change a child status definition, choose
and click the button. This opens the Child Status Settings window, shown below.Note: | There is no "undo" for changes you make in the Child Status Settings. |
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To create a new child status, click the
button in the Child Status Settings window. This will add a child status to the list. Read the next two paragraphs to learn how to name the status and assign it a color.To change the name of a child status, click in the Name column of the Child Status Settings window. Each child status name is limited to 255 characters.
Each status (except None) can be assigned any color. To assign colors to child statuses, select a status in the Child Status Settings and use the
buttons (in the Color column). When a child button is assigned a status, the color of the child button perimeter will match the color selected in the Child Status Settings.To designate a child status as sensitive...
Using the sensitivity preferences, you can specify that the status of any children whose status is designated as "sensitive" will be excluded from reports and GEDCOM files. (Note that the children are not excluded; only their status.)
The word "sensitive" also appears next to the status name in child buttons, in the Person menu, and in the Edit Family/Children panel.
To delete a child status, select the status you wish to delete in the Child Status Settings window, and click the
button.To delete all unused child statuses in your family file, click the
button.Child Status and Importing Family Files
When importing one family file into another, or when importing a GEDCOM file, Reunion looks at the statuses in the source file and attempts to find matches in the destination file. (A case-sensitive comparison of each status name is made.) If it encounters a child status in the source file and can't find an exact match in the destination file, a new status is created in the destination file.
Child Status in Reports and Elsewhere
Child status appears in reports and charts, but not in the tree view.
The appearance of child status can be customized in the family view; however it appears only with children, because child status is seen in the context of a child's parents.
Child status does not impact relationship or date feasibility calculations.
Note: as mentioned earlier, child status (a connection between a child and his parents) shouldn't be confused with flags (attributes of a person). We suggest reading the Flags chapter of this manual to help distinguish the two features.
One of the more popular applications of child status is a situation where you want to denote a tentative link or an unverified relationship for entries who may be related to others, but for whom you have found no satisfactory verification. Put another way, the scenario where you want to show that you suspect a person is a child of a certain family, but don't have sufficient proof.
For these situations, you can define one of the child status definitions as "tentative link" or "unverified relationship." Assign that status to people falling into that category. Any such people will then appear with color-coded buttons in the family view. In reports, such as the family group sheet, these people will appear with the words "Tentative Link" or "Unverified Relationship" appended to their names.
Other examples of child statuses include:
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