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Hi John...
What about an engagement?
In PHPGedView you can only add a husband or a wife.
But there is no way to add an engagement event and link this
event to another individual???
To kuthu...
I think there is no gedcom-fact to define a familiy that lives
together but is not married, except they are engaged or
married :-(
I think this is from the view of genealogic roots. In Germany
gays may marry and adopt children and also man and woman
may live together and get children without being married.
But I think in the eyes of genealogist this is not the "usual
way" :-(
bye, Kurt
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There is a major discussion going on in the genealogical
community right now about this issue.
There are some people who want to record relationships.
They would like to be able to record that they play fetch with
their neighbor's dog.
There are others who only want to record strict genealogy
bloodlines. So that an adopted child is not associated with
her adopted family, only with her birth parents.
This discussion has not yet been resolved in the genealogy
community at large.
My opinion lies somewhere in the middle. I have stong
feelings against same-sex relationships and LISP
relationships. I believe that they are morally wrong. But I will
try to be objective in answering the question.
IMHO I don't ever see the need to record all of the
relationships that people have. But I do think that if a same-
sex couple adopted a child and raised that child, that there
might be a need to record that family group. And there is a
definite need to record a LISP relationship if it produced
children. If the family had no children, then I wouldn't record
it.
But the real limitation here is the GEDCOM format. Here is
how I would record it in the GEDCOM. Whether your
genealogy program can do this or not, I don't know, but there
would be nothing in PGV that would stop you from doing this.
You just create a family for them and instead of adding a
marriage event, you could add a custom event or a note
describing the relationship that you want. In countries that
allow same-sex marriage, you could add the marriage fact
and add a note that it is a same-sex marriage or you could
create a custom same-sex marriage event.
For the same-sex relationship:
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I100@
1 WIFE @I101@
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Same-Sex Marriage
2 DATE 1 JAN 2003
2 PLAC , , Germany
1 CHIL @I102@
For the LISP relationship
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I100@
1 WIFE @I101@
1 NOTE Parents were never married.
1 CHIL @I102@
1 CHIL @I103@
A family with just an engagement would look like this:
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I100@
1 WIFE @I101@
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Engagement
2 DATE 28 FEB 1998
2 PLAC Provo, Utah, Utah
I hope this helps. I don't think that I need to do anything in
PGV to support this. It should just work.
--John
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Hi all,
I think this is a very important issue.
I was about to post my own RFE, but I saw this one, so here
is the place to continue the discussion.
In my opinion we have a program for a very broad public.
The users are from all over the world, and everywhere are
different rules (and laws).
Like Germany, as Kurt said, in the Netherlands it is arranged
by law that people of the same sex can get married (I think
the Netherlands were the first again).
John hit the nail on it's head by mentioning that people can
adopt children and that there is a need to record that.
One of my relatives has also married somebody of the same
sex. I also solved it with a trick.
The world is changing fast in many ways.
I think it would not be good to close the eyes for the changes
in the world.
It's better to adapt them.
I know John, that you made the program, and you said how
you think about this subject.
But, as mentioned before, the program is public now, and if
there is a need to make some changes, we should consider
that for one of the next releases.
*Jans*
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I think that PGV can handle this fine just the way it is. Does
anyone have specific suggestion about how PGV should be
changed to support this?
--John
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As no comments have been received on this issue for quite
some time, I am going to close this RFE as I believe that PGV
handles these issues very well. If there are any
disagreements, then feel free to re-open this request and
start the discussion again.
--John
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints developed
GEDCOM for its own purposes - that of performing vicarious
ordinances for our kindred dead. Since the Church does not
recognize same sex couples, these were purposefully left
out. Since GEDCOM is a proprietary standard, there is
nothing we can do about it.
As far as non-married heterosexual couples, create a family
without a marriage event _or_ put in the notes that this was
a "common law couple".
Since the family related tags force you to specify at most
one husband and one wife, same sex couples cannot be
represented by the current standard.
There is some debate in the genealogical community about
updating GEDCOM, possibly even converting to XML. A few
options include allowing more than one husband or wife tag
within a family, or even replacing "HUSB" and "WIFE" with
"SPOUSE".