Scripsit Doug McDonald: > Genealogy is about recording parentage. It tells who begat whom. > That is the core. Nothing can change this, it is the absolute > basis. Unless you possess godly omniscience, it's absurd to claim you can possibly just record "parentage". How on earth would you know? >> It is about recording and evaluating _evidence_. And evidence >> doesn't play by such neat and tidy rules. > > Recording evidence is secondary. Evidence is what you can record, because it's all you have. How you analyse said evidence and what you conclude when weighting the strength of your information, that you can secondarily record as probable, possible, or perhaps almost definite parentage - all with proper humility towards the fact, that neither you nor your personal instruments were ever marginally close to any given ovum at the time and place of conception. -- Regards Lars Erik Bryld