The problem from where we sit is that it depends on if you want your genealogy to have any integrity. You list foster children as children and publish it and others then download it without checking sources (if you had any) and consider it gospel. There is already too much "mis-information" on the internet about what true genealogy really is. When using genealogy, the integrity is either there or not. Legacy allows you many options for listing foster children without them actually showing up as children. Foster and Step are not the same thing. My brother has two stepchildren that are family in every other sense of the word. Do I have them listed as his children. Absolutely not, because they are not his children. They are listed as her children by her first marriage. It doesn't matter how one feels about people that are not related. They still are never related. I, for one, choose to include in my notes that these two children, now grown, were the only people outside my brothers and I that were ever included in my parents' wills. My parents loved them enough to name them but never named another grandchild. So....I for one, choose not to pollute my database with false information.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dora Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:01 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Foster children I'm writing for my descendants, not NEHGS. So I do what makes sense to me. Where is this emphasis on some sort of rigid rules from God knows where that make no sense coming from? "Violated rule number two twice"? Who's counting, and who's goinna slap mah wrists! If people want to be rule bound, why do they need to try to coerce other people to participate in this anxiety disorder? What difference does it make if Laura does her genealogy the same way Bill Houdek does? But then, someone on one list explained to me that some people doing family genealogy projects follow some bizarre outmoded rules that NEHGS and TAG and another group apply to what they will publish in their journals. I don't give two hoots what NEHGS and TAG allow in their journals. I publish my findings on the web, and discuss problems on the genealogy lists, and will never submit anything to NEHGS and TAG, and it sounds like they might not publish it if I did. But with that said, noone can tell Laura how to list those foster children. If the couple raised them and then they were listed as contacts by the funeral home, I would think they were family, but maybe Laura has reasons not to list them that way. And I don't know for what purpose Laura is doing her genealogy. Now, I'm off this discussion, before I get mad, and think of how to point out to Bill and others that there is not some all powerful body we all swore to obey or something to tell us all how to do live, worship, or do genealogy. My 17th and 18th century ancestors came to this country specifically to do all that their own way in peace - ARGGH! Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Cc: "Arnold Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Foster children >I agree with Arnold. Is time this is discussed and only blood line >individuals should be included in the "family". That said. have violated # >2 twice. Think what it all boils down to is what the individual doing the >recording wants out of the Legacy record. In that context, would not like >to see some sort of hard & fast rule as that will satisfy only the person >laying down the rule. > > Bill Houdek > ---- Arnold Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that once we open the *genealogical* door to >> non-blood line children, the difference between adopted, foster, and >> anything else is merely a word game. >> IMPHO*, there should be two categories for children: blood >> line (DNA) and other. >> IMHHO*, we should only list children of the parents' blood >> lines (DNA). Others should go into notes >> >> My comments are meant to further the discussion as to what >> constitutes *genealogy*. It is not meant to start a fire fight. >> Arnold >> >> * In My Polite Humble Opinion >> ** In My Honest Humble Opinion >> >> >> > > > > *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at > http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call > 1-800-753-3453. *** > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.1.431 / Virus Database: 268.14.19/556 - Release Date: 11/28/2006 3:22 PM *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800-753-3453. *** Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800-753-3453. *** Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
