Richard. I have been away for a while hence my lateness in commenting on your email and usually I don't comment until I see if anybody else has answered but with 600+ to work through..... "illegitimate" is still the official British word, previously it was "bastard".
WRT a prolific relation perhaps "partnered" could be used, although personally I'm not keen on it. I seem to remember getting "had a relationship with" into the program at some time but at the moment cannot think how! Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *Over 650 Surnames from 11 Countries* View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:13:03 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Children out of Wedlock Allen, re your subject, I have several children in my family tree of the same situation. As the core of my relations are British, I can tell you that on the official birth certs they are marked "Illegitimate" I know that this may be now an out of date use of language given modern families, but it was a word current for its time. Perhaps we need to live with the change in use of words, in context with the relevant current values around the time of birth. Im not sure what the official word for a child out of wedlock is right now. Perhaps some other reader can assist. Richard. On 10/8/07, Allen Prunty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you Jim... I never knew about this one... it is hard to find this information on your website and I find it often cryptic. Now my question is (as my GGG Uncle that really got around the town) has many relationships recorded as children there are descriptors like "spouse" we could change on that page. How can we respectably change it to something other than spouse... there's the old word concubine... what's the appropriate word to describe someone who has had a child with someone out of wedlock. I know that the legal term for the child is Bastard... is there a nicer term for that? I do want to publish this for my family eventually and want to use the most polite terms as I can. My grandmother who keeps up on modern terms has labled him as a "man-slut" but I don't think that's what I want to go down in our history either. It seems that the more you shake the family tree the more "skeletons" fall out. Allen Jim Terry wrote: > For help with "non-traditional families," please see the article "Adding > Multiple Parents and Single Parents in Legacy" at > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsMultiple-SingleParents.asp. This article > has been available here for two or three years. > > No disrespect intended, but you don't seem to have all the facts. > > Thank you, > > Jim Terry > Technical Support > Legacy Family Tree Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp _________________________________________________________________ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
