Re: Reunion users: dissociate wrong father

In article <Xns97C69D3231E2sakiuclaedu@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
saki <saki@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ron Parsons <jrp59@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:jrp59-4A75C1.08144817052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Go to the child's card
From the Relation button (+) just above the child's name select

Existing Father
The Index window will open where you can navigate to the real father's
entry.
Click that name.
You will be prompted as to how you want to handle this transaction,
either duplicate or move.
Select move.

The child will now appear under the correct father.

Actually if he selects duplicate, he can then set the child's status
to stepchild in that relationship.

That's what I decided to do after reviewing that option. The child (who was
born in Chicago 1911 and died in Los Angeles in 1962) likely didn't know
she was the daughter of someone else, a fact that appears to have been kept
well-hidden by the family until now.

In fact I'm not sure that I have the actual father's correct name either,
but it's all I've got. The mother was listed as a widow of the fellow in
the 1912 Chicago directory. I can't find a trace of him, nor any marriage
to my ancestor or his death record. Perhaps he was invented to cover an
out-of-wedlock pregnancy; that seems the likeliest scenario for now.

Being listed as a widow in a city directory does not mean that the
husband is dead. I had one case where a husband and wife were listed in
the directory for several years, then for several years the wife was
listed as a widow, then mysteriously the husband is back listed with the
wife for many years after.
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