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From: "Richard Marek" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] So.. now what?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:02:33 -0600
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It was on Beta List: #'s 1263 and later 1377.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Marek" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] So.. now what?


> First, I don't think work arounds show be an accepted method for working
> (bad choice of word?) in Genbox.
>
> Second, personally I don't feel that the suggestions for the godparent
entry
> a viable because the require one godparent to be entered as an "apple" and
> the second as an "orange".
>
> Third, it USED to work, I have entered baptisms before and been able to
> create godparents without the "family" being created. It was brought up on
> the list once and Bill corrected it. Later on it reappeared and now still
> occurs. Didn't affect me since I was entering other events. But now.....
I'd
> have to go back in the list to find exactly when this occurred.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheri Casper" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] So.. now what?
>
>
> > The problem is that the Secondary Link for the Event type is "parents"
and
> > the way GenBox treats "parents" is to make the assumption of a married
> > couple. There are a couple of ways to circumvent this problem: (1)
Make
> > the secondary link "other individual." Add one of the godparents as the
> > other individual and make the secondary godparent a witness. (2) is to
> omit
> > the secondary link altogether and make both godparents witnesses. In
both
> > methods, you would need to tweak your sentence structures. Given that
> there
> > is currently a way to accomplish adding godparents without creating a
> bogus
> > marriage, I really don't see a big issue here except for the fact that
the
> > default setup is incorrect in its assumptions.
> >
> > CheriC
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:]On
> > Behalf Of Francisco Tavares de Almeida
> > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:33 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: [GENBOX] So.. now what?
> >
> >
> > I don't know what is a 'pet peeve' but I am truly disgusted with
> godparents.
> > First Gen-Box assumes they are married between themselves and when they
> are
> > really married to another person - very common when the godfather is
> > paternal oncle and the godmother a maternal aunt - the result is a mess.
> > Second and consequently, they must be a male and a female and I have
> > instances of two godfathers and no godmother and the inverse.
> > When I realised that I had St. Anthony (1190-1231) married to a bunch of
> > aunts of a family branch I gave up godparents. Now they are just
> witnesses -
> > role: godparent (when possible). It looks peculiar to see St. Anthony or
> Our
> > Lady as witness to an event but still better than see Our Lady married
to
> > the infant's grandfather.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Francisco Tavares de Almeida
> > (Portugal)
> >
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