Thanks Ellen for bringing this up. I, too, am having the same problem. Hope someone comes to our rescue. How do you show an adoption by only one parent, when the other parent is the natural parent. PAF only shows it as an adoption by both parents. Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen" <fec33@earthlink.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 5:21 AM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Re: Acknowledging gay marriages in PAF > > Please explain how you can show the child as adopted by only one parent. > > Thanks, > Ellen > > At 02:00 PM 6/3/2005 -0600, you wrote: >>Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:31:12 -0600 >>From: "Dick Cazier" <dcazier@comcast.net> >>To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <005701c567c2$c8265980$0ff6a543@CazierOffice> >>Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Re: Acknowledging gay marriages in PAF >>Content-Type: text/plain; >> format=flowed; >> charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=response >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >>I think Alan's comment below as to the "right or wrong way" to do >>genealogy and "laws" on how it should be done are right on point. >> >>Much of the discussion on this thread seem to deal with personal feelings >>on whether or not homosexual marriages should or should not be recognized >>in genealogy. And it appears that most of the comments are based on a >>personal theological or religious belief. >> >>That is not the point. The question originally posed was "how do I record >>a homosexual marriage in PAF." So I don't believe it is proper or on >>point, in this venue, to try to convince anyone about one point of view or >>another as to the validity or appropriateness of trying to record this >>type of marriage. >> >>Now, for an idea of how to record this type of marriage, which PAF is not >>set up to do, by virtue of the program requiring one party of the marriage >>to be listed as male and the other as female. >> >>I suggest that you record one party, whether of male or female gender, and >>then add the children to that individual. This will result in a marriage >>with one partner listed as unknown (no RIN will be assigned to the unknown >>spouse and a no MRIN to the marriage). Then record the second party of >>the same gender to your PAF database and list the same children. Then >>edit the two marriage screens to add the appropriate date and place for >>the marriage (as appropriate) and notes to each indicating it is a "same >>sex" marriage and that the unknown spouse is-enter the name of the >>"marriage" partner of the same gender (and that individual's RIN). You >>might want to add a similar entry under the Notes of each individual >>partner, so that anyone looking at it later is more likely to find that it >>is a "same sex marriage." You may also want to edit the child relationship >>to show that they are adopted by both marriage partners , if that is the >>case, or show adopted to only one of the partners, if the child/children >>are natural children of the other partner. >> >>I hope this explanation makes sense. It seems to be rather clumsy, but >>is the only way I can see that it can be accomplished in the PAF program. >>If anyone wants to see an example of this idea, email me off list and I'll >>be happy to send you a gedcom of what I set up to test the idea. >> >>And realize that my quotation marks around the words marriage and same sex >>marriage are intended in no way to indicate my feelings on same sex >>marriages, but are intended to emphasize that this suggestion is only >>deals with same sex marriages. >>Dick Cazier >>Lakewood, Colorado >>USA > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > >