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It would be great to have a feature where you can interlink families so a new pastor/worker coming in can see how families are connected. Many are interconnected with parents, married sister, brothers, children etc coming.

August 29, 2019

Stewart Polley

Merged in a post:

Families improvement/bug

Ruben Salas

At church we have multiple generations and when families are put together, ChMS mixes all of them as one and you can't tell what family member belongs where. Parents and children are mixed with other family members and in-laws.

February 17, 2020

James Becker

We need to first identify a family group. The sorting should be first by family group, then within the family there should be several options for parental/adult order; husband first, wife first, oldest first or alphabetic order and similar ones for child order; oldest first or alphabetic. This should be a church-wide selection.
There should also be options for including grandparent(s) living at the same address with their children to be included with the family or listed separately. This option should be set individually for each multi-generational family living together.
These options should be system-wide so any report that lists people by last name uses the same sorting.

Stewart Polley

Hi Ruben,

Can you please go into more detail here?

Ruben Salas

@Stewart Polley: Let me give you an example we have now. if Family 1 (F1) has several children and their children are married and have kids, The children's spouses and their families come as one family with F1. I this case F1 has children, in-laws and parents of in-laws are part of the their own family.

Stewart Polley

@Ruben Salas: Thanks - for that. I've merged your request with this existing request for extended families.

This is not a bug though, our family system right now is simply not designed for extended families like you've set it up for. We only support individual family units, and if children have left and gotten married, they should be in their own family for now.

James Becker

@Ruben Salas: Here is a data structure that could help with your extended family request. This structure places children connected to a relationship between two people. Membership is not assumed to be there for every person in the database. Visitors can be added to the database.

Fergus Semler

if you mean - sorts them alphabetically by name rather than sorting by family grouping, I agree - I'd add that it's often good to sort by birth order within the family, too (esp children)

Tambra Leonard

Yes...had this functionality in ACS. It was a link to individuals and even businesses. I was able to customise the relationships too! (ie. Owner/Business, Grandparent/Grandchild, Aunt/Niece, 1st Cousin/1st Cousin, etc. It also allowed me to seperate deceased spouses but still have a link to them for the surviving spouse.

Fairall

I would like this kind of feature too. We have a number of families with different family set ups due to deaths of both parents. And also Foster families with multiple families in one. I generally just link them under one family name. But this is not always suitable.