I would create WTB's parents - which I would call "UNKNOWN child" of the so many great grandparents & put William Thomas Bloor as child of this UNKNOWN child. Therefore he would show up as a nephew as per the obit - but not locked into one of those daughters. I have these UNKNOWNS all over my database. I am not a great fan of capitalization but they do indeed show up very well & can be sorted for a list of people I need to work on.
I also use another type of created person I call MISCELLANEOUS as in MISCELLNEOUS Winston or MISCELLANEOUS Anderson & then attach all the people I know are part of that specific family but (as yet) don't have the foggiest notion of how. Therefore I don't loose these people in my database & always have quick way to locate these relationship mysterys. My "Unknowns" always have a actual parent or grandparent. My "Miscellaneous" are just people whose ancestry is still a "big sixty-four-thousand-dollar question". On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a relation, William Thomas Bloor, known to my grandmother as "Uncle > Tom" who has always been something of a mystery. I've never been able to > find anything about his birth or baptism. On his Marriage Cert his > father's name is given as William Macallister Bloor, but I am sure he was > illegitimate and the surname Bloor should not be tacked on. (Similarly, his > wife was illegitimate and her father's name as her own surname tacked on, > incorrectly.) Then I found a report of my 2nd Great Grandfather's funeral > in which he was described as a nephew. > > If he was illegitimate and was a nephew of my GG Grandfather there were 4 > daughters who might possibly have been his mother. Of 3 of them I know > nothing other than their names and dates of baptism, the 4th was just old > enough (about 16) to have been Uncle Tom's mother 4 years or so before she > married. > > How would other users link Uncle Tom to the rest of the family so that his > correct relationship shows up? Would you link him to one of the 4 sisters > with a note that the relationship is totally unproven? Link him to all 4 > with the relationships all unproven? Add a new unknown sibling as the > parent of Uncle Tom? > -- > Jenny M Benson > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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