All, Let's look at this way. Let's just forget the troublesome issue of interracial copulation and use a white on white issue: Rawleigh Chinn and his wife's cousin Margaret Ball and their three children. There is not way to enter this on the ancestry tree unless I say they were married or "unknown father" or "unknown mother" or simply add both parties as "spouse." They, it is none of the above. Rawleigh-2 Chinn and Margaret-3 (Ball) Downman had three illegitimate children, and she was fined for all three and this is of record. His legal wife, Easter Ball (and her first cousin) took this to court. So, not to beat this horse to death, how do we enter this in the tree? I don't think we can but can sure write in lots of caveats. I suppose I am spoiled with the "Reunion" program that most mac users have, and where all these explanations are possible. Maybe with the new investors in ancestry.com from Europe, this will be revisited. I may stand alone in thinking that new investor pool will be a boon to what ancestry currently offers in this area. It was several million dollars of new cash infusion for expansion. Craig