-----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 12:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Questionable children
Please see below. Heeren wrote: > No, not speaking of behavior, I have a family that has seven children, > born between 1765 & 1784, all well researched. > > Another researcher has an eighth child that he shows born abt 1790. *Caution* Another Researcher. This is, of course, a secondary source and by itself very unreliable. If this researcher quotes sources it is essential they are followed up, if not, then extreme caution is advised. I > have some serious reservations since Mom would have been 50 by then, Not entirely unknown, but very unusual. But 6 years after the birth of the last??? improbable. > Dad had three brothers (that I know of) who could have a child that > age and at least three of Mom & Dad's son would have been old enough > to father a child at that time. Not unusual for an illegitimate, or other single parent/orphan grandchild, to be described as the child of the grand parents to avoid stigmatisation, and in the UK (at least) people were a little indiscriminate in their description of relationships. > > My question is: I want to keep track of this child & try to place it > or reject it for good & sufficient reasons but where is the best > place in Legacy to keep such a child? I thought about Mom's notes & > started to put them there but I have used that for bits about her > that are interesting everyday things, not events. Same reasons for > Mom's research records. If both Mom & Dad were still arrived I would normally enter the child as unattached with a note in the Marriage Notes and a similar note in the child's Notes. > I've decided to use the To-Do list This is exactly what the TODos are for! but before I do, thought I'd check > with the group here & see if there was any way to keep a *possible* > child with her family but very noticeably tracked by color or stars or > something as not proved and/or doubtful? > Sorry, but not that I'm aware of. Ron Ferguson Legacy User Group guidel [The entire original message is not included] Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
