RE: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family?

[Jim Terry/Support]

I had a good experience meeting my biological parents. Ever since I was a
small child I was told that I was adopted. Then, when I was 33 years old, my
adoptive Dad gave me all my adoption papers and his blessing for me to find
my biological parents. I took me a year and a half and I found them. It was
great. 

I like my biological parents. They are very nice people, but I don't have
any "history" with them, if you know what I mean. My heart will always
belong to my adoptive family. 

Thank you for choosing Legacy, 

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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Dawn Crowley 

Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:07 PM 

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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family? 

Ditto that. I input all known relations. 

Dawn Crowley 

ross.chap...@rogers.com wrote: 

> I personally feel that one should take any and all important lines as far
back as you are able. Although not adopted myself I have cousins who where
and if the knowledge of their parents was known then I would research that
line as well if I could and they wished it. Currently I am doing my own
family lines as well as my step-fathers lines as well. The enjoyment is the
research as well as the discovery. Your adopted child is your family even if
not genetically related. Both lines may be researched. Further you never
know if their offspring will want to know who their genetic grandparents
were. Even if they call you grand pa. 

> 

> Ross Chapman 

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> Subject: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family? 

> 

> Searched the archives, but so much on adopted children, got lazy and
decided 

> to post my question here. 

> 

> My daughter-in-law was adopted shortly after birth. She knows little about


> her biological parents and relates well with her adopted family. 

> 

> She has provided me with data on her adopted family going back 4 

> generations. While it would be easy to add these data in Legacy, I'd like 

> to hear how others have handled this. Specifically, do others enter only 

> the adopted parent's information, or do they enter all that is known about


> the adopted family? 

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Re: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family?

[Dawn Crowley]

Ditto that. I input all known relations.

Dawn Crowley

ross.chap...@rogers.com wrote:

I personally feel that one should take any and all important lines as far back 
as you are able. Although not adopted myself I have cousins who where and if 
the knowledge of their parents was known then I would research that line as 
well if I could and they wished it. Currently I am doing my own family lines as 
well as my step-fathers lines as well. The enjoyment is the research as well as 
the discovery. Your adopted child is your family even if not genetically 
related. Both lines may be researched. Further you never know if their 
offspring will want to know who their genetic grandparents were. Even if they 
call you grand pa.

Ross Chapman
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From: Red Sanders
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Sent: 2 Jul 2009 19:18
Subject: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family?

Searched the archives, but so much on adopted children, got lazy and decided
to post my question here.

My daughter-in-law was adopted shortly after birth.  She knows little about
her biological parents and relates well with her adopted family.

She has provided me with data on her adopted family going back 4
generations.  While it would be easy to add these data in Legacy, I'd like
to hear how others have handled this.  Specifically, do others enter only
the adopted parent's information, or do they enter all that is known about
the adopted family?




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RE: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family?

[RedSanders]

Thanks Glen, that is what I wanted to know.

However, emotions DO play a part, at least in my research.  Knowing my
daughter-in-laws feelings about her biological parents vs. her adopted
parents, and the fact that she provided me a family history of her adopted
parents, I have no concern (feelings) that she would be offended by my
adding said data to my work.  If she did, I would not.

More to the point - there are "stories" in my family that were created
because of the feelings of the folks that were involved.  If I can tell
those stories without offending them (because they are now gone), it is my
belief that I can make my research more alive and interesting to other
members of my family than research consisting primarily of birth, lived,
died, buried facts only.  Each to their own, of course.

Thanks again,
Red Sanders

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Of GBallard
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:28 AM
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Enter adopted parents family?

Red,

I am also adopted.  I have not found my biological family and currently do
not plan to.  I have just under 38,000 names in my database of my adopted
line.  They are my family.  The only family I have ever known.  (I was 2
days old when my adoptive parents took me home from the hospital.  

That said, this would be very much a personal choice as to adding your
daughter-in-law's adoptive family or not.  Personally I would.  I record
data and facts in a person's life.  I don't record emotions.  I try to leave
emotions out of genealogy and try to only record facts in one's life.
(Hopefully this approach will lessen the chance of hurting someone's
feelings)

Glen Ballard




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Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage search

[Christopher Barttels]

Ronald,

Thanks much.  I've been using Legacy since the very first, and still find 
something new all the time!


Christopher Barttels
Dayton, Washington

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  Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Marriage search




  Christopher,
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  Search>Find, change "Individual" to "marriage in the first box, then Marriage 
place, Equal to, 


  Ron Ferguson






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RE: [LegacyUG] Marriage search

[ronald ferguson]

Sorry, Christopher I am watching Andy Murray (Tennis). I should have said 
Search>Find>Detailed Search, then as before



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> Subject: [LegacyUG] Marriage search
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:11:40 -0700
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Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage search

[Evert van Dijken]

Yes: Search > Find > Detailed Search Tab
Look for whom - select Marriage
Where to look - select Marriage Place
How to look - select Contains
What to look for - type location

Evert van Dijken

2009/7/3 Christopher Barttels :
> Is there a way to search for marriages in a specific location?
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RE: [LegacyUG] Marriage search

[ronald ferguson]

Christopher,
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Search>Find, change "Individual" to "marriage in the first box, then Marriage 
place, Equal to, 


Ron Ferguson

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> Subject: [LegacyUG] Marriage search
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[LegacyUG] Marriage search

[Christopher Barttels]

Is there a way to search for marriages in a specific location?

Thanks


Christopher Barttels
Dayton, Washington




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[LegacyUG] Persoanl knowledge vs Interview

[mbstx]

Hi - after struggling with this issue and not being satisfied with either 
Personal Knowledge or Interview in the circumstances described, I created a new 
Source "Stories passed on to MBS" - MBS is me.

Then in the detail I can indicate who told me and what was passed on. For me it 
clarifies not only the source, but also how "reliable" the information is.

Marianne



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RE: [LegacyUG] Personal Knowledge vs. Interview?

[Ross Chapman]

I have used personal knowledge for various facts that I would not actually
qualify as an interview. i.e. chatting with family at a reunion, wedding,
funeral or another get together. I do sub-divided them up a bit into spouse,
sibling, child, subject, and parent and have never used a name as the title
of the source. Once it gets beyond two generations of knowledge it goes more
into an interview format and is documented and thus is then recorded under
their name as a title. Personal knowledge is more for information about
themselves, their spouse, their parents and their children. Otherwise I will
source it as an interview. If I had to list each of them as an interview I
would probably go nuts... lol, I have over 60 cousins and their spouses, 16
aunts or uncles and their spouses, well over 120 2nd cousins, well I think
you get the drift ;). Lets just say I have found grouping them as above
under personal knowledge is far far easier.

Ross P. Allan Chapman
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Visit my genealogy web page at http://rossallanchapman.tribalpages.com
(major work in progress)

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Sent: July-03-09 2:24 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Personal Knowledge vs. Interview?

Anyone have a thought on when to use "Personal Knowledge" and when to 
use "Interview"?  My parents, aunts and uncles told me a lot of 
information about their large family (Mom, Dad and 10 children who 
all lived well into adulthood).  I did not write a transcript of the 
discussions but did enter them into my genealogy software.

Now that I have Legacy and I'm trying to "clean up" my ancient 
sources, I first decided to re-source them as "Personal Knowledge as 
told to Cathryn Vallevieni date".  Now I'm thinking the source should 
be "Interview" since the personal knowledge was told to me.  It seems 
the only time "Personal Knowledge" would be technically correct is 
for the person entering the information (my personal 
knowledge).  Every other circumstance someone told me or wrote to me 
the information which would be either "Interview" or "Correspondence".

I've reviewed the Archives but thought I'd ask for more input.

Thanks.

Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA




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RE: [LegacyUG] Personal Knowledge vs. Interview?

[ronald ferguson]

Cathy,
 
I only enter as "personal knowlege" that which I know as a matter of fact and 
which, therefore, happened in my life time. Everything else I regard as family 
folklore and include it in notes for that person.
 
This family folklore may, or may not, be true, but if I cannot prove this then 
it must remain open to question. For example I was told that my Ferguson family 
came south from Dumfries, Scotland to England, as I cannot prove this it is not 
a fact. The closest I have got is that a GGgrandfather Ferguson was *not* born 
in Westmorland (1841 census) around 1766, and the implication of the census is 
that he was born in England, otherwise the census should have shown "Scotland" 
and not "Out of County" in the place column.
 
Another brick wall :-)



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> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:23:53 -0700
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
> From: cathyv...@cox.net
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Personal Knowledge vs. Interview?
>
> Anyone have a thought on when to use "Personal Knowledge" and when to
> use "Interview"? My parents, aunts and uncles told me a lot of
> information about their large family (Mom, Dad and 10 children who
> all lived well into adulthood). I did not write a transcript of the
> discussions but did enter them into my genealogy software.
>
> Now that I have Legacy and I'm trying to "clean up" my ancient
> sources, I first decided to re-source them as "Personal Knowledge as
> told to Cathryn Vallevieni date". Now I'm thinking the source should
> be "Interview" since the personal knowledge was told to me. It seems
> the only time "Personal Knowledge" would be technically correct is
> for the person entering the information (my personal
> knowledge). Every other circumstance someone told me or wrote to me
> the information which would be either "Interview" or "Correspondence".
>
> I've reviewed the Archives but thought I'd ask for more input.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cathy Vallevieni
> Orange County, CA
>
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Re: [LegacyUG] Personal Knowledge vs. Interview?

[Laurence E Stephenson]

> Anyone have a thought on when to use "Personal Knowledge" and when
> to use "Interview"?  My parents, aunts and uncles told me a lot of
> information about their large family (Mom, Dad and 10 children who
> all lived well into adulthood).  I did not write a transcript of
> the discussions but did enter them into my genealogy software.

Hi Cathy

I use personal Knowledge as follows

I create a source for each individual whom gives me informal verbal information.
In the source I name the Individual who gave me the information.
In the citation detail I put, "Principles Mother" or whatever, principle being
who the information is about.

I feel an Interview is either a written question and answer session, or a taped
interview.

Hope this makes sense and helps.
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L.E.S.



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Re: [LegacyUG] Personal Knowledge vs. Interview?

[Don Cook]

Cathy,

I have covered these cases with a general Master Source:

Source List Name:  Personal Knowledge
Title:  My personal knowledge or undocumented and unverified family 
lore.


If there is more I think I should say of this for a particular citation, 
I will expand on it in the Detail Information and Text/Comments on the 
Source Detail Citation.


Of course, I will always be looking for more reliable evidence to 
support the "lore".


I reserve "Interview for those cases where-in I can recall and cite a 
specific person and at least an estimated date.


Happy Hunting, Don

--
From: "Cathy Vallevieni" 

Anyone have a thought on when to use "Personal Knowledge" and when to 
use "Interview"?  My parents, aunts and uncles told me a lot of 
information about their large family (Mom, Dad and 10 children who all 
lived well into adulthood).  I did not write a transcript of the 
discussions but did enter them into my genealogy software.


Now that I have Legacy and I'm trying to "clean up" my ancient 
sources, I first decided to re-source them as "Personal Knowledge as 
told to Cathryn Vallevieni date".  Now I'm thinking the source should 
be "Interview" since the personal knowledge was told to me.  It seems 
the only time "Personal Knowledge" would be technically correct is for 
the person entering the information (my personal knowledge).  Every 
other circumstance someone told me or wrote to me the information 
which would be either "Interview" or "Correspondence".








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