Not just in New England but definatly in Maryland & Virginia, & Kentucky,
it was thought to be a good gester for Sisters or Brothers to marry their
wives Sisters or Brothers, or for 2nd Marriages for Mothers or Fathers to
marry into the sons or daughters also. Most everyone in my families married
1st cousins. They could not seem to use any imagination for names either.
They all named their children the same, enough to drive you crazy.
At 09:22 PM 4/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > I also have multiple direct lines. Could Legacy have
> > the user capability of setting more that one "preferred"
> > children. It already happens "by accident" that the * -
>
>Multiple direct lines seem to be common when you trace your
>family back to New England - small isolated towns created
>intermarriages between a limited number of families so that a
>couple generations down the line you find second & third cousins
>marrying. I'd like to see a way of handling that easily in Legacy, but
>in the meantime, I've made it a habit of placing my preferred child
>first in each children list, no matter where he or she stood in birth
>order. Then if I have multiple descent from one set of parents, I
>place the children leading to those other lines ahead of the
>preferred child. This tells me at a glance that there is more than
>one path from this point on. Not exactly elegant, but a stop-gap
>measure until a neater way of handling it comes along.
>
>
>Jane Devlin
>Lake Orion, MI
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