I leave it blank, which is exactly what I know about them. I could suppose the realationship but that's not good genealogy. Fran L On 07/04/2015 4:29 PM, Andrew Jackett via wrote: > Hello group, sending also to John Steed, > > I have traditionally been perplexed as to how to enter in an unknown parent of a named child born in an historical context just to one named parent. I used to enter the unnamed parent's name as "(?)" meaning unknown (so that the matching of relationships to children in the family would be accurate) and changed the relationship to display as Partner (i.e. not married) in most cases but I had people coming back to me saying they were entering this person in as an unknown husband (or wife) when in fact it was most likely a brief liaison rather than a legally binding, committed relationship of some kind. Others blindly assumed it was a husband (or wife) and so I found myself getting back to people and explaining further about what had supposedly taken place with these folk, just what the lack of detail meant. (The software I was using, not BK in this instance, was somewhat unclear as to separating out Partners from Husband and Wife, however I am unclear as to how to best expr! > ess myself in BK as well). > > In recent weeks I've chosen to enter them in with the name "father of Gladys May PARSONS _______" and this idea seems to have it recorded better, but having the Not married = Partner status shown for some of them still kind of lets it down. I would prefer that the relationship status be changed from Partner to something more suitable but I'm not sure exactly what it would be called. > > Any ideas, people? Do other folk come up with this problem also? Any great work-arounds that we should know about? I'm certainly interested in this area of discussion. > > In a different genealogy program I treated these one set of named parent relationships as 'Friends' although I was not comfortable with the terminology. I believed that they needed to be something different from being 'Partners' or married couples. > > Do we have something to work with in that area John Steed or is the jury still out on that one? > > At least now by entering first and last names of "father _______" and "mother _______" on the Find person search, the names can be located easily in one swoop and other readers of the family tree reports can see better how the "(?)" person got to be placed there. I think I'm making progress with that but I'm open to other ideas. > > Thanks for reading this. > > Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. > 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 > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com