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Lisa E Allen
Lisa E Allen ✭
March 3 edited March 7 in Family Tree

In relationships, there needs a "had child together" there are times when the parents were not married, yet they did have a child together. Perhaps it was a one time thing or something else, think slavery in the south, . There is no evidence that they lived together or perhaps we know they did not live together. We need to have a relationship tag for having a child together. It seems like whitewashing history to put "lived together" when all we know is that they had a child together and then, many times, each went on to marry different people.

Thank you for your time

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 3 edited March 3

    If the parents did not have a relationship, you can simply enter them separately, using the "add parent" link.

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 3 edited March 3

    Here is an illustration of how one can add a child to two (biological) parents without showing the parents to have been in a relationship with each other. In this instance, Francis Halls was married to another woman at the time of Thomas' birth / baptism. Both Francis and Maria remained unmarried after Francis' wife death in 1639, so I have assumed there was never a close relationship between the two:

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  • Gail Swihart Watson
    Gail Swihart Watson ✭✭✭✭
    March 3

    The enslaved / enslaver relationship exists now. That is in Other Relationships, which they have put all the way at the bottom, for some obscure reason. To look at an example, KNH6-JQX is my enslaver ancestor and GFQH-DNY is "Negro Boy" mentioned in his will.

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  • Lisa E Allen
    Lisa E Allen ✭
    March 3

    The problem with adding the child to each parent separately is that at some point "someone" will look at it and combine the parents. I still believe that there needs to be a tag that states that they had a child together to address this problem.

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  • Maile L
    Maile L mod
    March 7

    You can add a note, even make an alert note, stating that no relationship was found for the parents.

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