Debbie wrote:
> I answered this thread when it started, but no one seems to have caught
what
> I wrote. For genealogical purposes (and for some old church records), the
> term "natural child" means an illegitimate birth.
>
> Natural child: a child born to a couple who have either *not* been married
> or whose marriage has *not* been accepted by a recording agency.
>
> Source: Maurine and Glen Harris, *Ancestry's Concise Genealogical
> Dictionary*, (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1989)
Yes Debbie, I very much agree with you. One does often find the
term "natural child" in records indicating a child born outside a marriage.
I think they used that term as it was more gentle than "bastard".
Now we want to have it mean something else about the relationship
between parents and a child.
jr
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