Distinguish "Household" from "Family"
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Tyler Rasmussen
Households are made up of a wide-variety of related and semi-related people. Families do not all live in the same household.
I really need a way to connect people directly as relatives who live in different households (especially for children in a split marriage, but also for two post-retirement sisters with different last names that anyone not entrenched in the system wouldn't know they are family).
In the "Family" section of an individual, simply make a heading "Household" and include everything already connected in there, then make a heading "Additional Family" where you can connect them via the same relationship options to other people outside the household.
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Tyler Rasmussen
This request overlaps with https://tithely.canny.io/chms-feature-requests/p/extended-family-relationships
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Tyler Rasmussen
One of the things I loved about Church360 (which in many other ways was too limited for what we needed) is that, because relationships were separate from households, the program could display parents and children of any individual across households, making it possible to traverse down to grandchildren or up to grandparents and have a clear picture of family clans within the congregation.
I know I'm working on pruning our membership list right now, and I discovered two member families that are daughters with different last names of people who left the congregation last year. Those children are now in different households, but have also been inactive in all that time. It would have been helpful at the time to have known the relationship and potentially remove the whole clan, but in Elvanto, this is impossible to know.
Janeen Killian Dishman
YES!! Also, change the grandparent designation to grandchild - chances are the adult is listed as primary contact or spouse... but there's no way to list their grandchild who lives with them.
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Tyler Rasmussen
My personal biggest concern is split families where a child is connected to multiple households.
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Rose Cuddy
Absolutely - we have a church with a long generational history and we really need a way to track related people not living in the same household.