Hi One-Namers Everywhere I agree with Marie, and then there are those not so modern marriages when folk married their cousins and other very close relatives where they kept it in the family. In small or isolated communities and particularly where travel was difficult there was/is a small gene pool & I guess we all have a great many brother & sister married a sister & brother, I even have one LAWES family where a number of siblings married folk who on the face of it were likely to be related. All good fun for us genealogists eh! John P Laws Registrar Laws Family Register Putting Flesh on the Bones of History wwww.lawsfamilyregisterr.tribalpages.com www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marie Byatt via Sent: 25 January 2015 22:59 To: Gordon Adshead; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Modern "Marriages" and Facebook The same way the World wide index does 'Study surname' and 'Spouse Surname' - actually that is why we went that route with the Index - asking people to categorize as 'bride and groom' can be awkward. We are trying to document the happenings and trends of our surnames - not to judge them. So one of your Adsheads married someone of a different surname - that's what you record. BTW - I'd love to have those marriages for the index Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com ________________________________ From: Gordon Adshead via <goons@rootsweb.com> To: GOONS <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:08 PM Subject: [G] Modern "Marriages" and Facebook I am not a great fan of Facebook, and I am aware that there are many different ways in which it is used. But I have found it a fairly fruitful way of finding out what some of the modern ADSHEADs are up to. But I have just been given my first database challenge [I have to use ficticious names, or our forum manager would remove this post from the archives] I have made facebook "friends" with some 60 or 70 ADSHEADs including one Arthur in Australia He had a sister Bertha who also asked to be a friend Bertha has just posted a message:- "Yesterday I got married to Caroline SMITH" Several of her friends and Arthur all sent messages of congratulation so I assume that it is a genuine civil "marriage". But it has left me wondering exactly how I should record this in my Marriage Index. Best regards Gordon +Z [+Z] <http://www.adshead.com/> Gordon Adshead <gordon@adshead.com> [+Z] Beaumont House, 2 Goodrington Road, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3AT, UK [+Z] Tel:+44-1625-549770 Mob:+44-7776-145602 _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message