Yep! ~Don
On Jun 25, 2013, at 1:40 PM, "geoffbr...@juno.com" <geoffbr...@juno.com> wrote: > To me genealogy is all about connecting people. The software is just a tool > to make it easier. > > Most people have one set of parents; some people have more than one father > and/or mother due to adoption or other reasons, but in researching there is > always at least the hope of finding at least one father and mother and > extending the connection back an additional generation and the software > allows for that. > > The question is can you connect someone forward to another person by marriage > or parenthood? Having a “stop looking” sign because the researcher has done > an exhaustive search and is satisfied that the person was never married and > because the researcher is satisfied that the person had no children is > helpful, just as it is helpful to document that if they were married and they > had no children. To me these are just signals to stop looking at trying to > extend that line by marriage or parenthood. > > Now, if someone has a child, from a genealogy software perspective, it seems > only nature that the system is going to allow for that child to have at least > one set of parents. If the known man and woman that produced this child were > not married then I just check the box that says “This couple did not marry.” > To me that is just an indication to not look for a marriage record and to > move on. > > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Ronald Bernier <ronaldbern...@bernfrin.org> > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marriages > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:00:01 +0000 > > But it does seem to be a huge deal to you. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 24, 2013, at 10:13 PM, "Pat Hickin" <pph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Shingals wrote "We none of us can ever *absolutely prove* any fact. What > makes this one require special treatment?" > > I realize that most facts are not absolutely 100% provable, but we all know > that zillions of people have had children out of wedlock. That men may not > necessarily even know whether they've produced offspring. > > I just think there should be a way to say (on the individual screen) that an > individual never married without also having to make a statement about > offspring. > > That's all I'm asking for. To me it seems utterly reasonable. It really > does not seem such a big deal to me! > > Pat > > > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: >> On 24/06/2013 23:07, Don Hendershot wrote: >> > omg! Please stop! >> >> The subject may not be of interest to some of us, but it *is* on topic >> for this mailing list and obviously is of interest to *some*. 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