Which parent's should a child be added to when husband marries twice
I was looking up an ancestor, Dennis A O'Connor who was living in Chicago, on the newspaperarchive.com website. Specifically i was looking for his fathers, Dennis O'Connor, obit which i could not find. I did, however, find his father's memorial on the find a grave website (Memorial #48121724) which has his burial place as Otter Creek, Jackson, Iowa. I could not find his father's obit but i did find something else. I found a mention in the Dubuque Daily Times of Wednesday October 6, 1897, page 5 that his son was summoned to come from Chicago to Dubuque on Saturday October 2, 1897, for his father's funeral which was on Monday October the 4th. The newspaper also mentioned that he had died in Otter Creek, Jackson, Iowa which tells me, because of that memorial, that he is his father. However the only wife mentioned on that memorial was a Bridget Hickson who he married in 1856 in Dubuque. Now Dennis was born in 1854 in Pennsylvania so she cannot have been his mother if she had married his father in 1856. I did, however, find on this website two source's which are the Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998 and Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947. The only thing on them that mentioned his mother was a last name, Egan or Eyan, but no first name. Should i add him as Bridget's son and make him her stepson or just add him under the Egan name? Or both.
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Hi Mark,
From the information you have given, being born two years before the parents married doesn't necessarily mean that Bridget Hickson wasn't the natural mother, nor does it confirm that the lady named Egan was his mother. It will involve some additional research from you to sort out exactly who's who in this relationship. I would only add the information to the tree once you are sure of a correct match. Any of the options you mention might be correct, but you need to be able to substantiate them first.
If you can't be completely sure, add a note to each of the records stating what you have found, which may help others with their search.
Kind regards,
Barry
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To add to Barry's advice:
The general answer is to attach the child to all biological parents and any step parents they lived with. Once you make the parent-child link you can edit the relationship to reflect the kind of relationship. There is a choice of biological, step, and several other options.
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Se debe agregar al padre que corresponde
Primero agregar cónyuge
Segundo Los hijos
En el Árbol Familiar, los parentescos de pareja conectan a las personas que se casaron, que convivieron, que tuvieron hijos, o quienes de otra manera se consideraban pareja.
Este articulo pude ver que proceso se lleva acabo https://www.familysearch.org/es/help/helpcenter/article/como-agrego-o-cambio-la-informacion-de-matrimonio-en-arbol-familiar
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