It is *not* "false information" to include a foster child as a foster child
in a family with whom the child is fostered. If people cannot read it is
their problem.
Ron Ferguson
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From: "Paul C. Abell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Foster children
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:05:23 -0600
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
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----- 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
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