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From: Luc Matthijs <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: Philosophy and/or Theology Versus Genealogy (AKA .....True Marriage)
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:34:14 +0200
In-Reply-To: <00d701bfcb5b$bf098d80$1da70218@mrdn1.ct.home.com>


At 19:55 31/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>[snip]
>The bottom line for me in this discussion is not the morality or
>correctness of a particular event or non-event as the case may be but
>rather how we as writers and genealogists can best represent it in a
>written history. Whatever the correctness of the situation with my
>cousin, she is still my cousin. If I still choose to represent her and
>her relationship as a part of my family, in spite of her shortcomings,
>how best do I do it without alienating her. That for me is the crux of
>our discussion.
>
>Ken Nelson
>

And that's why I want to use an even-related genealogy package.

We do have the possible types of events in the marriage context:

- the promise to marriage (public engagement, ...)
- the marriage (related to a specific community: the civil municipality,
the catholic parish, ...)
- living together or not (personal relation)
- residing together or not (as declared to a specific administration)
- the divorce (again related to a specific community: the civil
municipality, the catholic parish, ...)
- the death of one of the two

If we create and document each event, then we can "follow".

I do have very complex situations in my genealogy, but once you stick with
the events, then you can easily see what was happening, without any moral
judgement.

Imagine the following contexts:
- marriage, when one of two is in prison
- man and wife do have different religions and don't want to choose
- man and wife are living together, but one of them must for some
professional reasons legaly reside in an other town
- etc ...

Greetings,

Luc







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