Same sex unions regardless of what you call it cannot produce offspring. Genealogy programs are for tracing "blood lines" plus a few fringe benefits. They are not family histories, even though closely related in appearance. One of the benefits is the adoption fact for including alternate "parents". The other "same sex" individual can be ID'ed there with appropiate notes. This very emotional topic has been beaten to death and all varying viewpoints can be reviewed in the archives. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: [RM-U] Wish list > I have a current problem, and I believe we will be seeing much more of this > kind of problem in the future. > > The problem is same sex unions (which may in some cases be recognized as same > sex marriages). > > I would like suggestions: > > 1) How to handle these situations in FO 10, and > 2) Provisions to be made in the new RootsMate. > > I am not interested in hearing religious or legal opinions, but a means of > presenting facts. > > For example, if a lesbian relationship produces a child, via artificial > insemination, how can the companion's relationship be shown. > A similar situation may develop with gays and surrogate mothers. Adoptions > may also be involved. > > Bill Case > > > ==== ROOTSMATE-USERS Mailing List ==== > A very little help for the extreme computer challenged: > http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237