[OSM-newbies] How to use relations for The Chiltern Way and its extensions

[Bob Hawkins]

I sent an email to Talk-GB recently as the most appropriate mailing list, perhaps.  Regrettably, I received one reply only.  Certainly it is no reflection on the person who replied, but I still feel unsure about how to proceed.  To date, I have created a new relation containing part of one extension.  I wonder now whether this is a candidate for Parent/Child Relations?  If so, how is that connection made?  There is no apparent solution when I open the Parent Relations or Child Relations tabs of the Relation Editor in JOSM.  Here, then, is the text of my original email:

The Chiltern Way has a North Extension, a South Extension and, new in 2010, a Berkshire Loop.  Perhaps this is true of some other long-distance paths.  The Chiltern Way is shown at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Long_Distance_Paths as only 33% complete.  As the South Extension and part of the Berkshire Loop are within my area of interest in South Oxfordshire, I should like to gradually add them as relations to the already-mapped ways in order to increase that percentage.  I should be interested to learn other mappers' views: should the three extensions be part of one existing Chiltern Way relation, or relations in their own right, or both?  If part of one existing Chiltern Way relation, how can the three extensions be identified separately?

I should be grateful for someone's input. 
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