In all likelihood, we would be dealing with living individuals in this situation. Although I'm not a professional genealogist, ethics would still require me to protect the privacy of living individuals and not release information about them without their consent.
For those reasons, I would probably not document these kinds of details in my database, unless the mother or adult child of a sperm donor asked me, and even then, I would probably only put it in [[private notes]]. Connie robert coburn <bob-dd...@comcast.net> wrote: I'm not sure if my question is appropriate for the user group or not. If it isn't please forgive me this is my first post. I watched a news report several days ago concerning a sperm donor who had fathered at least 15 children (several sets of twins) with different women. The father was identified only by a donor number- no name. It seems like it could get really messed up. Would each mother would have a phantom "donor" spouse with the children from that "union" listed or would the children only be listed as adopted by the original husband and spouse? Or is there another solution? I guess that the same questions would apply for an egg donor. There is a donor sibling registry and the link is http://www.donorsiblingregistry.com/ . How would a professional genealogist handle this in Legacy? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
