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From: Ian Singer <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Descendant Box Chart again - multiple wives
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:19:20 -0500
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On 1/9/2011 10:20 PM, Lee Hoffman wrote:
> The same applies to the parents of Ruth Huttman's husband. I fact,
> if you did not know Eli's first name, but only knew that Ruth was
> married, you would not even need a Marriage Tag regardless of the
> number of children that Ruth may have or not had.

Generically speaking, if I know someone existed, but do not know a name,
I use the convention First Name Unknown and/or Last Name Unknown. That
seemed to be logically better than TMG supplying -- unknown -- which
would then export in the GEDCOM.

The marriage tag was also a matter of convention to cut down flack from
relatives seeing someone had a child but was not married.

Oh, and the person I asked about that was called Unknown I was
misreading. It was actually saying that the husband was Unknown as there
was none shown but there were children.


Ian Singer

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