CButson wrote:Hi!
We have a family that has a unique situation. Mom and Dad of girls a & b have divorced and re-married. Both Mom and Dad and their new spouses attend church here. We'd like to print up a directory and list girls a & b with both sets of parents so people know who their mom and dad are. Any way I can do this? I've been trying to think of a way, but I can't, so I feel like this:
Thanks for any help!
Cathy
There is no easy way to do this ... and its not all that unique. What I've found is that I put the children under the parent who has primary custody. In many cases, its the mother. The girls are entered making sure that their last name is listed.
For example:
Bob Jones and Mary Jakes were married. They divorced, and Mary got custody of the two kids, Sam Jones and Sara Jones.
Mary got remarried to Sid Smith. The girls are placed under Sid & Mary Smith's Mailing List Profile, but they are entered in the personal profiles as Sam Jones and Mary Jones. We have one of the user editable data items on the Personal Profile set to show as 'parents'. And we enter the parents names there so we can track them that way.
As far as the directory, there's not much more you can do, unless you want to duplicate the personal profiles under each parent. An alternative is to save the directory to a Word document, and add that data to the parent in Word. But that can mess up the formatting of the directory.