It's interesting how attitudes are preconditioned. I've long contended that people who can't stand to come face-to-face with unpleasant truths should not get involved in genealogy. The much older cousin who got me involved in genealogy sent me a note about getting in touch with the descendants of "cousin Ada". He went into some detail about where they lived, etc. but there was just one little problem; I'd never heard of "cousin Ada." After some discussion he said, "I must be slipping as I get older. Cousin Doris and I had vowed we'd 'take this to our graves.'" Turns out that "cousin Ada" was the 'natural child' of one of our great(nth) aunts. She was born in the 1840s!!! And my cousin felt it necessary to protect the family from the information! I had already become very used to out-of-wedlock births after discovering their high incidence among my German and Swedish ancestors. But for my cousin it was more than he could bring himself to talk about for over 40 years! I, myself, am very uncomfortable with polygamy, however in many cultures, it is quite normal for a man to have more than one wife. Family Origins handles this situation very gracefully. However, there is a type of traditional polygamous marriage that FOW can't handle. In some cultures (areas of Nepal and Tibet) it is common for two (or more) brothers to marry the same woman. This is done to keep the family farm from being split between heirs. In this type of polyandrous marriage all husbands are considered to the equally the fathers of any children. This is one type of "traditional" marriage that does not involve one man with one woman and which Family Origins does not seem handle. Or at least I have not figured out a way to handle it. Perhaps there could be multiple contemporaneous marriages between one woman and two or more men and the children could be added to each marriage. Would this work? I'm sorry if discussion of this type of marriage upsets some people. However, they have been doing it this way for a thousand years. Fortunately, FromalSoft probably has few customers in rural Nepal and Tibet, so Bruce will probably never have to deal with this type marriage. Don Newcomb ----- Original Message ----- From: Alwyn ap Huw Humphreys <alwynaphuw@hotmail.com> | I don't like it, the Archbishop doesn't like it and (from the conservative | attitudes expressed on this list) most of you don't like it!