Quoting Ira J Lund ([email protected]): > A lot depends on the individual wishes. In CFT-Win you can attach more than > one set of parents to an individual and indicate the parent type - such as > "god parent". > > In ancient Scandinavian this god parent relationship often resulted in the > god parent raising the child, even though the the natural birth parents > were still alive. Such is the case of King Håkon "the Good" (son of Harald > Hårfager "Fairhaired") who was raised by his godfather, the English King > Athelstan. In my genealogy, I do not show this godparent relationship, > although with such an intimate connection between the child and godparents, > it sure makes one wonder. In my database, I show godparents (all are catholic) as "witnesses" of the Baptism when they are already in the database because they are related in some way. This allows to narrow searches for the death date of these people. Conecting them as "other parents" would maybe lead to some misunderstanding, thus I prefer avoid this.