Your grandmother's mother - your great-grandmother. I'm 61 and a great-grandmother and at this age, I don't care who knows what. Is great-grandma still around to worry about it? Biblically, the answer is simple: Judge not. My sister-in-law use the phrase: The shortest distance between two points is a straight answer. Put him in there. Sue At 07:45 AM 6/21/06 -0400, you wrote: >Since we're on family secrets. > >Question for you all, what do you do about listing a parent when they were >never wed?. My grandmother never told me her father, and I was told not >to ask. Death certificate said unknown. But, it was known who the father >was, and I have a letter from one of the father's family telling me the truth. >Besides some of the rest of the family knew or suspected who the father was. >Would you list this parent on your genealogy or leave the parentage blank? >I hate having a hole in my lineage. My grandmother's mother never married >and only had the one child. > >Robyn > > >============================== >Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx