From: Ron J. <ron...@co...> - 2012-09-18 14:55:28
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On 09/18/2012 09:24 AM, Benny Malengier wrote: > 2012/9/18 Martin Steer <mar...@ma...> > >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Benny Malengier wrote: >> >> >>> >>> 2012/9/18 Martin Steer <mar...@ma...> >>> >>> I don't understand this. Why would you make a separate family for each >>> of the parents of a bastard child? >>> >>> >>> In my usage, family means the people there actually lived under the same >>> roof. >>> >> >> Seems like a brave claim, to me. A bastard, like any other child, might >> live with with either or both of its parents, or neither of them. >> >> What do you do with the families of married parents, when you don't know >> who lived where (surely often the case, with families of the past)? >> >> Surely it is safer to use 'family' only as a grouping construct for >> people having certain kinds of documented relationship, primarily those >> of blood and 'marriage'? >> > > For bastards the father is sometimes known. But for past relationships it > indeed comes down to following documents, so family is normally clear. > > The 'live under same roof' is more about documenting current family > constructs. Document that as a Residence event shared by everyone living in the same house at the same time. > For example, a family is private or not. Children of a family > have no problem to see them on website or in my family tree in a family > with their stepfather, however, the family with the actual father should be > private. > People not being brought up in a single household, surely you have two > families for that. > So what would be the problem of a family with only the mother, and one with > only the father? Completeness before embarrassment. gramps *does* have step, adopted, foster, sponsored and NONE in addition to birth and unknown as relationship between parent and child. Thus, a child can have multiple fathers and mothers. > In software, everything can be merged and visualized together anyway. > -- If adults of legally sound mind must be told what foods they are not allowed to buy, then those people are not competent to choose (i.e. vote for) their own leaders. |