hlmw <hlmw1@telus.net> wrote in news:mailman.1480.1199300991.4586.alt-genealogy@rootsweb.com: > Bruce Remick wrote: >> >> If you don't want to enter an illegitimate birth directly into your >> program, why not simply cite it in the notes for the father or >> mother. Although it may be an illegitimate child according to civil >> law, it is still the legitimate child of the woman who bore it and of >> the man who fathered it. Your program notes can be easily edited if >> necessary, depending upon who you might want to pass the information >> to. Rather than the "legitimate child" (which has a specific legal meaning) wouldn't you be better off referring to "the actual child" here of two specific parents? I agree with you that the notes section of the program would be a good place to indicate this. Whether the parents of the child are married to each other might well be of some historical importance. I'm working on a project now involving German church records in Charleston SC. Until I started reading the records more closely, I realized I had previously missed important words like "ledig" (single) after the parents' names. > I am wondering why a person has been indentified as 'illegitimate' for > legal purposes. I would imagine that inheritance might be one reason for a legal identification. ---- saki@ucla.edu http://sakionline.net/familypage