I hope Legacy catches up to reflecting human reality as it is. Because what am I supposed to do with perfectly good and happy gay cousins in the meantime?
Obviously, Legacy is not strictly 'genealogy' software because if it was they would have left out the option to record adopted children. Right now, it's not clearly 'genealogy' OR 'family history'. It's taken us centuries to get to the point where people can have babies without being 'sanctified by The Church in Marriage' first or ever and having to hide it because the sky might fall if the neighbours find out. My mother's from that world so it's not so long ago. For the sake of people who are still pretending that homosexuals and transsexuals don't exist and/or will soon be wiped off the face of the earth by some godly force - perhaps Legacy could make an option that can turn off those nasty bits in the same way that non-LDS can turn off the LDS stuff. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/9/2012 11:20 PM, familytree wrote: > LOL...not sure about YOUR family tree but I am busy keeping track of the > babies born before the marriage dates that my ancestors conveniently > forgot about...and for the record that is BOTH genealogy and family > history. Your results may vary... > /-------Original Message-------/ > /*From:*/ JLB <mailto:[email protected]> > /*Date:*/ 07/10/12 01:42:02 > /*To:*/ [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > /*Subject:*/ Re: Family history or genealogy (was Re: [LegacyUG] Same > sex "marriage". > snip..... > Genealogy or family history. I hadn't thought about it that way before. > So I guess 'genealogy' means I should get busy recording the babies born > through rape. (Pure bloodlines! biological on at least one side ... ) > And 'family history' means picking and choosing what you please? > OK now I'm totally confused. > --- > JL Beeken > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ > On 7/9/2012 10:24 PM, familytree wrote: > > I KNOW I am committing one of the lists unpardonable sins by hijacking a > > thread but really DO feel the previous topic had surpassed its useful > life.. > > I still think that's a decision you make at the outset....are you doing > > family history or genealogy...although I admit that I have changed my > > mind sometimes when the family history becomes particularly intriguing. > > I also tend to change my mind on the subject when I find many > > intermarriages between families....then I just CAN'T resist the > > temptation to find out more...It is family history AND genealogy in my > > case...and I rather enjoy the sounds of the skeletons hanging in the > closet > > /-------Original Message-------/ > > /*From:*/ JLB <mailto:[email protected]> > > /*Date:*/ 07/10/12 00:58:25 > > /*To:*/ [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > /*Subject:*/ Re: [LegacyUG] Same sex "marriage". > > I was just thinking along the same lines. How do you record the > > child(ren) of a heterosexual couple who used a sperm donor? No different > > Than how you would record the child(ren) of gay couples. One of the > > parents is not biological. > > Certainly I have adopted children in my database. Probably within my > > lifetime they will marry and there's no bloodlines there at all. Should > > I stop recording at that point? 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