In a message dated 3/29/02 12:46:33 AM, cshed888@bigpond.com writes: << i made the decision that any marriage that ended in divorce & no kids , i would leave out , but those that had kids , the ist marriages would be included. >> Sheila: I have relatives who were married and never had children and sometimes they married two or three different men. What would you do then, just show the men/women as staying single? I put it all in unless asked not to. Ergo, I have one cousin whose oldest daughter, born a number of years before her marriage to her second huband, is shown as a daughter of the current husband. One woman wanted her children by a previous marriage shown so I put them in since they won't show up on the family genealogy I will be doing. Why would we be interested in non-family members? I also show adopted people as say, John Doe*, in my records which will go down that person's line to indicate no blood relationship. Best, Sandi