I don't link when neither parent is known. I created a Link event to use in this type of situation, but use this event very sparingly. "William Thomas Bloor may have been a grandson of ____ and ______." I'd then also have Link event for the grandparents reading "____ and ____ may have been the grandparents of William Thomas Bloor." The link can be easily seen without attaching the individual. This works for both known non-parent relationships and probable relationships.
Barbara -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 9:03 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Relation who can't be correctly linked. I have a relation, William Thomas Bloor, known to my grandmother as "Uncle Tom" who has always been something of a mystery. I've never been able to find anything about his birth or baptism. On his Marriage Cert his father's name is given as William Macallister Bloor, but I am sure he was illegitimate and the surname Bloor should not be tacked on. (Similarly, his wife was illegitimate and her father's name as her own surname tacked on, incorrectly.) Then I found a report of my 2nd Great Grandfather's funeral in which he was described as a nephew. If he was illegitimate and was a nephew of my GG Grandfather there were 4 daughters who might possibly have been his mother. Of 3 of them I know nothing other than their names and dates of baptism, the 4th was just old enough (about 16) to have been Uncle Tom's mother 4 years or so before she married. How would other users link Uncle Tom to the rest of the family so that his correct relationship shows up? Would you link him to one of the 4 sisters with a note that the relationship is totally unproven? Link him to all 4 with the relationships all unproven? Add a new unknown sibling as the parent of Uncle Tom? -- Jenny M Benson -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
