> I am interested to know how or if you record the children of > a > second marriage where those children are not descendants in > the family tree? I have lots of cases where my relative has either married someone who already had children by a previous marriage, or where the widowed spouse has gone on to remarry and have more children. What I do is to put brief details of the earlier/later family in the spouse's notes. So let's say John Smith married my cousin Jeannie Scott after already being married to Lizzie brown. I will put into John's notes something like, "John was married to Lizzie Brown on [date] at [place]. They had three children: [name, DoB; name, DoB: name, DoB]. Lizzie died on [date] at [place] of [cause of death]". Then suppose my cousin Jeannie Scott died and John Smith later married Maggie MacDonald, by whom he had two more children. I will add to his notes, "John was married to Maggie MacDonald on [date] at [place]. They had two children: [name, DoB; name, DoB: ]. Maggie died on [date] at [place] of [cause of death]". If any of John's children by his other wives became famous or achieved anything particular, I might add a note about that too, but always in John Smith's notes, not in an actual tree of relatives. Likewise if either Lizzie Brown or Maggie MacDonald had a notable parent or relative, I might add that to John Smith's notes as well. HTH Anne