FTM: Entering Child with Unknown Father
Gaved
When a child is born to an unmarried woman and the father is
unknown, if she marries another man later, how is that child kept
from being entered in FTM as the child of the man she married?
e.g. Mother Sarah ... child Bobby is born ...Father ?... she marries
Mr. Smith... child becomes Bobby Smith ?
In this particular scenario the child was not raised by Sarah or
Mr. Smith, nor was it adopted out legally, just raised by a family.
Should the child be attached to the family that raised it?
Lorna
"Gaved" <hl...@telus.net>
cecilia
1) Treat the unkown father as Sarah's first partner, and that
partnership producing Bobby. Personally, I would call him "Unknown"
or (though some would shudder) "Bobby's father"
2) It is possible to have multiple sets of parents.
See http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/FTM/2009-09/1253201155
my...@ic24.net (cecilia)
Lesley Robertson
"Gaved" <hl...@telus.net> wrote:
> When a child is born to an unmarried woman and the father is
> unknown, if she marries another man later, how is that child kept
> from being entered in FTM as the child of the man she married?
When you enter the marriage, you do it as a new relationship, then
the existing child stays separate (it's exactly the same as when
someone is widowed and married again).
> e.g. Mother Sarah ... child Bobby is born ...Father ?... she marries
> Mr. Smith... child becomes Bobby Smith ?
FTM won't change entered surnames. If you don't enter a second
parent, it'll usually accept the fact that a child only has one
known parent. If you want to put an entry in the father's space, we
all have different ways of listing unknowns. I routinely use "Nn"
for unknown surnames (eg where I don't know someone's maiden name)
and either "Xx" and "Yy" for unknown fornames, depending on whether
the person is female or male, respectively (eg the unknown forename
of a widow's dead husband). I must admit that I don't usually bother
entering "Yy Nn" though. I like the fact that this system makes
people stand out in the index. If I've got a little time to search
something, it's easy to head for the "Nn" section of the index and
find something that seeds doing.
> In this particular scenario the child was not raised by Sarah or
> Mr. Smith, nor was it adopted out legally, just raised by a family.
> Should the child be attached to the family that raised it?
You can show this in two ways - show its residence in the facts list
for whateverr years you know it (census years for example) and/or as
a note saying "raised by"...
Lesley Robertson
"Lesley Robertson" <l.a.ro...@tnw.tudelft.nl>