Hello Carole - Thanks for the input. Everyone must have known about the child in the Spruce Fork area. I am looking for info on her and will post what I know later. Thanks. Rick > > From: "Carole Hammond" <carole.hammond@comcast.net> > Date: 2006/06/20 Tue AM 12:28:14 EDT > To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Secrets > > >>One of my Logan Co. gg grandfathers had a child born to a young lady prior > >>to 1861 - maybe late 1850s. She was listed as his next of kin on his > >>military papers. How do you all handle this sort of thing?<< > > Rick, > > If everyone is dead and everyone knew about it anyway then I put it in. You > are right....we all have a lot of them if we go back far enough. With some > children I know the fathers and some I don't....like the father of my > gr-gr-grandma's last three children. I was astounded when I found that her > husband had died three years before my ancestress was born....then she went > on to have two more. > > My genealogy program, RootsMagic, allows me to enter it and gives me an > option to keep it private. > > Carole > > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >