How to input relationships for children born from incest
I have a friend I am helping and we found an ancestor who produced 2 children with his daughter. How do we put this in the history? DO we leave her as single and put it in notes, or do we put her father as the father of the children as well?
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That's a tough one!. I would put the children under the bio father and the mother with a note explaining it in the life sketch. I would leave the mother as single with a note in her file also. Hope this helps,
Carol
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There is a policy about this. It is in KA 695560. We are not to copy and paste. But there is an answer. You could probably write to FamilySearch Family Tree.
Sign into your Family Tree account. On the upper right is your name and a few icons to the left is a ?. Click on the question mark and choose from the dropdown box Contact Us. Scroll down to Send a Message. Fill in all of the pertinent information, being sure to include any and all ID numbers for the person and family. In the Message part, describe your question. If you have any documents you can add an attachment to the Message.
I'm not sure what answer you will get, but I would do that. In the Category part you can put Family Tree or Temple.
❤️ AnitraW
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what is KA 695560?
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@Dean Ray Palmer It's a Knowledge Article available to FamilySearch Support missionaries, so the best answer is what @Anitra Whittle provided - contact FamilySearch Support directly. Some help articles can be found by all users, but some articles are seen only by support missionaries. You might even want to copy down that KA number to provide to the support missionaries, in order to make their search much easier for you in case they don't find it right away on their own.
--Chris
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@Dean Ray Palmer
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Dean
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As an aside ...
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Further to what 'Carol Ann'; 'AnitraW'; and, 'Chris', have already proffered ...
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'Taking another tack' ...
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Of course, provided some time as passed; and, there are NO "Immediate" Family still "Living" ...
[ ie. the Ancestor; his Daughter; and, those Children as conceived ]
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One should NOT 'Whitewash' History, in this case, (past) FACT ... it happened ...
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Many people like to 'look at life through 'rose coloured glasses' ...
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But, in this SINGLE "One" World 'Tree' that is "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', we should show it how it was, regardless of how some might not like to see it - I am NOT taking about recent times, NOW; as, there are too many directly related, who are still "Living".
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We need to make it easier for future generations to see (and, if possible, through 'Documentation', UNDERSTAND) what it was ACTUALLY like, rather than what some would prefer others to see ...
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In fact, I think that it is the 'Skeletons in the Closet', that make "Genealogy"/"Family History" so much more interesting.
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The general 'run of the mill', can be pretty 'boring'.
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And, not all of those 'Skeletons in the Closet' are unpleasant, some, in fact, many, are quite uplifting and interesting.
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The ONLY real problem/issue that will most likely eventuate is that the "System" will most likely indicate a "Data Problem", that CANNOT be "Dismissed".
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IF, the latter is the case; THEN, your friend may have to 'Submit' a 'Support' Case, to get the Programmers/Engineers to manually "Take Down" that particular "Data Problem" as a 'one-off'.
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But ...
That said ...
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Go ahead and record the "Relationships" as they were (ie. History, FACT).
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And, 'Yes', certainly; as, you have already intimated, document as much as can be through, the Life Sketch; Notes; Discussions; Reason Statements; and, if available, Memories.
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But, again, of course, ONLY do so, provided some time as passed; and, there are NO "Immediate" Family still "Living" ...
[ ie. the Ancestor; his Daughter; and, those Children as conceived ]
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Just my thoughts.
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Brett
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ps: I hope that you and no one else is offend by my response.
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