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How to add a child.
= How do I add a child to a Person or Family? =
Children are not added to a Person. Children are added to a Family. You can add a family around a Person or add a Person as a Child (or as a Parent) to an existing family. A Child may belong to more than one family.However, only one Family should have a "Birth" relationship of a child to both Parents. The others families would be "non-traditional" relationships. The relationship to at least one of the parents would be Adopted, Stepchild, Foster, Sponsored, None or perhaps a custom relationship. You can Add a child: * [[#Adding a child from the Relationship View|From the Relationship View]]** [[#Adding the Active Person as a Child in a family|To Parents]]** [[#Adding a Person as a Child of the Active Person|As Offspring]]* [[#Adding a child from the Family View |From the Family View]]* [[#Adding a child from the Person View|From the Person View]]* [[#Adding a child from the Charts View |From the Charts View]]* From addons:** From the [[Addon:ImportGramplet|Import Text gramplet]]** From the [[Addon:DataEntryGramplet#Usage|Data Entry gramplet]]
== Adding a child from the Relationship View ==
When you look at the list of children in a family, those with the same birth-date are obviously twins. But if you don't know the birth-date, or only know the year, you need some other way to indicate the relationship. You can do this by having them share a single birth event.
Take for example, the twins Thomas and Peter. When you create the Birth event for Thomas, make the {{man label|Description}} say "twin births of Thomas and Peter". Then add a reference to that same event to Peter's event list, either by ''[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_and_drop drag and drop]'', or by using the {{man button|Share an existing event}} button. Then set the shared Role to "''[[Gramps_Glossary#primary|Primary]]''". {{man tip|Manually set [[Gramps_Glossary#event_role|Roles ]] for shared Events|It is important to set the {{man label|Role}} for shared events. When adding a new Event to a Person, Gramps assumes the person will play a primary "''Primary''" Role and guesses that by default. However, the Role cannot be guessed for participants in a shared Events and defaults to "''[[Gramps_Glossary#unknown|Unknown]]''". Non-primary participants of a Birth event might include a midwife, doctor, birthing coach... but the Role should never be left as "''Unknown''". <br /><br />Be certain to set the Role to "''Primary''" each time a Birth event is shared for multiple births.}}
Now when you view the event list for either Thomas or Peter, you will see the {{man label|Description}} reminding you that they are twins. And as you add details (such as birth date or place) to the birth event for either of them, those details will automatically display for the other as well.
