So are there any genealogy programs that do print matriachal lines??
Sherry
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On 7/26/00 at 10:58 AM Lee VanKammen wrote:
>um... guys.... um... I hate to tell you but without the WOMEN there
>wouldn't be any patriarical line! Is this something you can change...
>? Sorry.... you've just hit one of my sore spots. It is so difficult
>to do research on our foremothers that I hate to see it carried on in my
>favorite software!
>Lee
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>Support wrote:
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>> The Lineage report only prints out the paternal lineage. There are no
>> options for the maternal lineage.
>> Jim Terry
>> Technical Support
>> Millennia Corporation
>> www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Bernd Oldewurtel
>> To: User Group Lecacy
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:07 AM
>> Subject: [LegacyUG]
>> the lineage report shows the direct line using the family
>> names of the males. In my home region in Ostfriesland,
>> Germany up to 1860 the patronymic naming system was used and
>> the mothers maiden name often became the new family name
>> especially when the husband married into a major farm. My
>> ggg mother was a born Frauke Oldewurtel who married a
>> Bernhard Sjauken. My gg father was named Bernhard Sjauken
>> Oldewurtel. The surname is Oldewurtel and the subname
>> Sjauken. The lineage shows only the Sjauken line and cuts
>> off the Oldewurtel line after Frauke Oldewurtel. How can I
>> line out the Oldewurtel line?Bernd Oldewurtel
>>
