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

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