In the option of marriage there should be a choice as other. Product of of a one night stand and DNA

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m said: I would also like a version for "one-night stand/relations without relationship."

I have an LDS ancestor who had a trial in Colonial New England and she was unmarried and with child and 2 men were named in the trial record as the potential fathers.

(She later married and had a child with her husband, so the problem is people keep detaching the Unknown father and adding the child by the unknown father to her husband over and over.)

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Adrian Bruce said: "the problem is people keep detaching the Unknown father and adding the child by the unknown father to her husband over and over.)"

I believe this to be an important point. Leaving something empty (the unknown father's data) may well be logical but it is, I believe, always a hostage to fortune. Better by far to have something that makes an explicit statement that something is unknown, etc.

In this case, there needs to be some sort of something (yes, that is meant to be vague!) that makes an explicit statement that the father is (so far) unknown. There are those who work on the basis that leaving his entry empty does mean that the father is unknown. Unfortunately, it could also mean that "I haven't done any research into him yet". And along comes someone like "M" refers to, who interprets the missing data as "no research done yet" and thinks, "Ah - they haven't finished off the entries here so I'll add this child to their correct [sic] father."

LegacyUser

m said: I would also like a version for "by DNA."

I have an LDS not ancestor but relative and to put a long story short, his wife had more children by her live-in lover than by him, and everyone was able to tell which child was by which biological dad due to the skin tone, eye color, and hair color one being extremely fair while the other extremely dark.

But in the official birth record, they are listed as kids of the LDS husband and they have his surname.

The LDS husband died at the time the last kid was born and the kids were all raised by the live-in-lover.

So even though I initially put the kids as kids of the lover because the lover is the biological parent plus the parent who raised them, LDS relatives "corrected" the kids and added them back to the LDS husband because that is what the birth record says and they aren't close family enough to know the truth. (I did not put them back to the biological dad.)

You can see the problem: everyone is doing DNA tests now and in the future. So for those kids, they should be connected to their biological dad/dad who raised them, the live-in-lover.

Their record tree is completely false and does not match their DNA tree.

As it stands, they and their kids will never figure out their DNA matches. None of their DNA matches or their kids will ever figure out their DNA matches. Because the vital information of how they are related by DNA that I placed was "corrected" (removed).

"By DNA" would be a way for them to get their tree corrected so that they are connected to their biological dad/dad who raised them, the live-in-lover (if they somehow can figure it out after the links were broken).

LegacyUser

Randy Rudeen said: Another way to say the same thing is..."No relationship, child created"