Re: [LegacyUG] e: Keeping track of adopted names

[Gordon Small]

In one family I am researching there are six children. The parents always 
told everyone that they were married two years before their actual marriage 
date and everyone always thought all their children were their biological 
children. Well everyone in the immediate family thought that anyway. My 
research uncovered anomalies in the birth dates of the children and the 
marriage date of the parents. The first child was 2 years old when the 
parents were married. The second child was born 7 months after they were 
married. The birth dates of the children and the Marriage date have been 
verified.

I have confronted the only three living relatives that would have knowledge 
of what happened and have three different stories.

1. The first born was biological to the mother but not the father. (Sister 
of the mother)
2. The first born was adopted by both parents. The second born was 
biological to both parents. (Sister to the father)
3. The first and second born were both adopted. (1st cousin to the mother)

Assuming I have no way of verifying any of the stories how should I 
represent the relationships?

One thought is that I should show all children as biological to the parents 
since we don't have all the facts. We really don't know for absolute 
certainty that any of the stories represent what really happened. After all 
there could've been a fourth story that both children are biological to both 
parents and I just haven't heard it because anyone who "knew" is not 
available to tell.

The "family" says just put all children in as biological and let the readers 
draw their own conclusions from the dates since any commentary may be 
incorrect unless I can come up with documentation to for the commentary.

What to do? What to do?
Gordon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Hugh Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] e: Keeping track of adopted names


There are genealogists and there are family historians - probably both 
types
will see your data.

<SNIP> 

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