Goodbye ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Scheimann <linda514@ivillage.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Significant other > For the 100th time, briefly. You are arguing biology versus sociology as the proper subject matter for genealogy. Please allow that reasonable minds can differ. It's not only same sex relationships you exclude, but all childless relationships. In royal genealogy, for example, you would exclude marriages which were important political alliances from your record just because a man was too young to father children (Arthur of England, older brother of Henry VIII, whose original marriage to Catherine of Aragon was the source of the later split with Rome), or because the woman was past menopause at the time of the marriage. This will give you excellent breeding charts, but not necessarily history. If that's what you mean by genealogy, fine. But we normally record these marriages and relationships unless they are same sex. The standard isn't ability to conceive, it's exclusion of same sex relationships. > > If this post bounces as off-topic, as Lane did to me a long time back, that's double nonsense, and I will be out of here permanently. > > Linda > > > > On Wed, 09 May 2001, "Dick Wells" wrote: > > > > > This topic has been beat to death several times. > > > > Same sex arrangements cannot produce offspring, therefore the relationship is meaningless for > > genealogy. Use the Notes capabilities if this "needs" to be recorded as family history. > > > > For children in this type of arrangement, use the Adoption fact. > > > > Dick > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joyce Mortenson Wilson" <jwilson@commspeed.net> > > To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:40 PM > > Subject: [FO] Significant other > > > > > > > I am using 9.0. I have been given an assignment by my genealogy SIG to > > > include a significant other (of the same sex) and I can't find any way to do > > > that. Is there a way that I've missed? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Joyce Wilson > > > > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > > > The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm > > > Browsable Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ > > > > > > ============================== > > > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > > > your heritage! > > > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > > Searchable ARCHIVES - (might wrap so you have to type in part of the name, or copy and paste) > > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=FAMILY-ORIGI NS-USERS > > > > ============================== > > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > _________________________________________________________________ > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web > http://www.ivillage.com > > ______________________________