Resent without the messy formatting! My approach is this: If you have -- a second marriage but you don’t know who the first spouse was - put “not known†(all lower case) as a given name -- children known to be siblings but don’t know either of the parents - put surname (same as siblings) for father only, leave mother blank. -- mother and children but don’t know the father - put “not known†as father’s given name (not surname) so as not to compromise the children’s surname -- father and children but no mother - put “not known†as a mother’s given name. In the absence of a name Legacy sometimes introduces “Unknownâ€, so to distinguish from this my choice is usually “not known“ in the given name field, You can always find these not known people from a given name sort of the name list. These people are not *Unknown* - somewhere there will be a name, but to me, at this time, they are just *not known*. Boyd
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