To J P Gilliver You must add one parent to have someone be a sibling of someone else. You can call the parent ? Furlong or you can call the parent "Parent of Mattie and James" or whatever you want. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John) via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 8:07 AM Subject: [BK] how to add a sibling without parents? > From a draft "Pier 53" tag which a cousin is preparing: > > "James married Mattie Furlong in 1896 in Allegheny County. Back in > 1891, James' older sister Mary had married James Furlong, Mattie's > brother." > > So I've added Mattie and James Furlong, but I don't have their parents. > How do I indicate that they're siblings? > > A possible way would be to add a parent, just entering the name as > "Unknown" or "? ?". This is what I'll do for now - is there a John Steed > preferred format for the name? (I have the feeling that "Unknown" has > had some significance in the past.) > > [Actually, thinking about it, I could probably add the father as "? > Furlong", but the general question remains. And that doesn't _have_ to > be the case anyway: they could both be illegitimate children of a female > "? Furlong".] > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > Worst programme ever made? I was in hospital once having a knee operation > and I > watched a whole episode of "EastEnders". Ugh! I suppose it's true to life. > But > so is diarrhoea - and I don't want to see that on television. - Patrick > Moore, > in Radio Times 12-18 May 2007. > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

In message <[email protected]>, John Steed <[email protected]> writes: >To J P Gilliver > >You must add one parent to have someone be a sibling of someone else. > >You can call the parent ? Furlong or you can call the parent "Parent of >Mattie and James" or whatever you want. [] Ah, thanks. I've invented a father and called him "? ?". I had a faint suspicion that the name Unknown - or in fact *UNKNOWN, since I have three called that from ages back - had some significance; obviously my memory was in error. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Chuck Berry was once asked what he thought of Elvis Presley and he said, "He got what he wanted, but he lost what he had." [Quoted by Anne Widdicombe, in Radio Times 8-14 October 2011.]