Suggestions

[Gianluca Corfield]

Hello! Good morning. I would like to make a couple of suggestions for the application. I am a person who has been using it for a long time and I am fascinated by genealogy. I find Family Gem to be a very flexible application with a very user-friendly interface. It really has a lot of potential, and my special thanks to the developer and acquaintances who have helped him with this.

I will list my suggestions:

1. Relationship of "Stepbrothers":

I'll give a specific example. My great-grandmother "Paula" had several brothers, stepbrothers and half-brothers, these last two terms do not mean the same thing. A stepbrother is someone who is the child of the partner of one of the two parents. For example, Paula had a younger stepbrother, who was the son of her mother's husband. A stepbrother is someone who is the partner of the father or the mother.

Now, what are half-brothers? They are those who only share one parent with the person in question. Paula had several half-brothers who were the children of her father with another partner, which makes them her half-brothers, not her stepbrothers as the page indicates. I would appreciate it if you could correct this translation error, since they are very different relationships. In my country, for example, it is legal to marry or have children with a stepbrother or stepsister, but it is not legal to have children with a half-brother or sister. Paula's father, for example, was married to his stepfather's daughter, who would be his half-sister. In the past, it was said that a half-brother was someone who was the father's son with another woman, and that brothers were all the mother's children because they were gestated in the same womb, but this is an explanation that has become obsolete over the years, especially because of the legal section I mentioned.

By the way, I would like to clarify that I am a Spanish speaker, so maybe it is just a translation error into Spanish, I honestly don't know. In spanish, this two therms are called "Hermanastro" (Step-brother), "Hermanastra" (Step-sister), "Medio hermano" (half-brother) and "Medio hermana" (half-sister).

2. Adding a second optional date to jobs:

This is mostly because there are cases where a person works for a period of time in the same field but not for their entire life. I am aware that there is a "Retirement" option, but that is not what I am referring to. In addition, there are people who have had many jobs in their life, and if they used the "Retirement" option to enter the date they finished working in a certain position, the information about the person would end up being twice as long, including, for example, their baptism, physical appearance, an alternative name, and so on. My uncle Hipólito, for example, was a farmer for 6 years, and then a gendarmen for another 26 years. I have the date he started and left both professions, and it would be nice to be able to write them down in the same "Employment" option, since I find it somewhat uncomfortable to add notes to clarify when the person in question left the job. Something like the "From... to..." option that some genealogical websites and applications have, such as FamilySearch for example, but I know that add another value to the dates can be so much difficult, so I would be satisfied if you add only an second date, like "Start" and "End" in the same box, opcionally the second of End if the day or year are unknown.

3. Adoptive Families:

My great-grandmother Paula was given up for adoption, so I'll use her as an example again.

Paula has two families; her blood family is 15 children between her father and mother, and her adoptive family is only two (her and her stepbrother). I noticed that the page prefers to put Paula's adoptive family first, I guess because it's easier for the app to graph a family of three people than one of more than 17 people. I don't know if it's a mistake, I tried adding Paula's family before or after several times, even changing their order, and they always put her adoptive parents before her blood parents. My suggestion would be (and in case it can be done, please excuse my ignorance) an option similar to the one with the photographs, where someone chooses if a certain portrait is the main one. If anyone could choose the "main family" or the one they would like to be shown, it would be much better, since for example my great-grandmother Paula did not like her adoptive family and never liked to interact with them, however she always got along better with her blood family. I only add the adoptive relatives since they are also the ones who raised her and gave her her name and surname legally, but that is my business. So anyway, if you add an option similar to what I say, I would really appreciate it.

Once again, many thanks to Michele Salvatore and all those who helped him in the programming of this application. It is very nice to look at and very comfortable. I would appreciate it if you would consider some of the options I have sent you. Best wishes and greetings to all of yours from Argentina!

[M. Obrcian]

Hi Gianluca,

I edited your first suggestion on https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/family-gem/app/es/.

What the Oxford Advanced Language Dictionary says:

Half-brother

- a person’s half-brother is a boy or man with either the same mother or the same father as they have

Step·brother

- the son from an earlier marriage of your stepmother or stepfather

Half-sister

a person’s half-sister is a girl or woman who has either the same mother or the same father as them

Step·sister

- the daughter from an earlier marriage of your stepmother or stepfather

This will be reflected in the app in one of the next updates.

Milan Obrcian

Dátum: piatok 17. januára 2025, čas: 7:51:40 UTC+1, odosielateľ: Gianluca Corfield

[M. Obrcian]

Sorry for the mistake, it's Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dátum: sobota 18. januára 2025, čas: 11:36:08 UTC+1, odosielateľ: M. Obrcian