Re: [Gramps-users] Adding siblings to unknown parents

[Jim W. <jim...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Brian Blandford <br...@be...> wrote:
> I have someone in my family tree whose parents are unknown but whose
> sister's name I do know.
> I can't find any way to add the sister as a sibling except as a child of
> named parents.
> Do I have to invent fictional parents to add this sibling to the tree?
>
> Brian Blandford

Brian, this is very common if you do much census work.  Doing a one
name study, I have many of these.  To start with you do know, in most
cases, the last name of the father.  I use this marking for unknown
people. "(?)" for unknown given names and "(Winfrey)" for last names
of females where I don't know the maiden name.  So, in your case I
would have (?) Winfrey for the father and (?) (Winfrey) for the
mother.

Jim