Your message on Roots, raises lots of scenarios. The way you are doing it is certainly not wrong and it should give you a lot of self satisfaction. You must realize that the "Legal" in regards to Adoption or Guradian only became common in the 20th Century. Prior to that nobody bothered with what was Legal, rather than whether they wanted the child to live or die of starvation, or as an extra farm hand. It is obvious that your definition of "Roots" and mine is different for good and logical reasons. In my case I'm now involved in DNA testing to determine my Roots and that involves the blood line of the paternal side of the family. Ross GH Cotton, Burlington ON CAN 905)639-2929 Genealogy of the COTTON surname is my Enigma. I haven't sent an attachment if the details are not mentioned above. Check out my Genealogy Web Page at www.skylinc.net/~rgcotton GOONS member responsible for tracking the family name COTTON, #1437 Coordinator for Cotton DNA testing Project, Worldwide ----- Original Message ----- From: Jenealogy To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Re: Acknowledging gay marriages in PAF--LDS content >From my understanding...Your roots follow the "legal" guardian or parent. That is the way I am doing it. Is that incorrect? If we are suppose to go by biological I am going to be up a tree. Within 3 generations we have several out of wedlock, adoptive, "affair children" and other situations that would definitely cause anxiety & frustration. So which track do you take? - Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trudy Lundy" <ltlundy@comcast.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 9:06 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Re: Acknowledging gay marriages in PAF--LDS content > I have a question -- from an LDS standpoint -- a gay couple would never be > sealed (guess someone could "lie" them in) or have children sealed to them > (unless things changed for one of them). So why not just link children to > biological or adoptive parents, whichever case if known (or as unknown), who > are not gay? What about children of sperm donors, known or unknown? Some > children (of sperm donors) have found their biological fathers. I have read > of actual cases. And then there are the rare cases of surrogate mothers. > These are all very interesting genealogical questions. > > Just wondering........ > > Trudy > > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > AVG Anti-Virus Users > Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Connecting the World One GEDCOM at a Time http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/