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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: Relationships (was [TMG] Spouses even though no marriage shown?)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 01:37:27 +0100
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In message of 5 Jul, Dennis Lee Bieber <> wrote:

> On or about 07/05/04 02:02 a carrier pigeon from Tim Powys-Lybbe delivered:
>
> >Genealogy, we record whatever we know of the members of the family. A
> >period of time cohabiting is significant and might well be worth
> >recording.
>
> To my way of thinking, that would be a shared RESIDENCE event,
> with the two listed as principles. Nothing related to any variation of a
> marriage tag.

Of course that could be a shared Residence event. But that is not what
I was thinking of. I was thinking of a couple who are behaving just
like married couples except that they weren't married: they lived
together, they own things together, etc.

Because the relationship between them was of much the same 'item' as a
married couple, I was also thinking that I would like to see them shown
as couples on the Family and Tree displays. As an aside I even know of
one couple who have been together for decades and state that they
consider it wrong to get married. They are committing themselves
together out of freedom, not out of a legal event.

So this is the issue for me: how can I enter a couple that:

(a) are cohabiting

(b) appear on the Family and Tree displays even without children

(c) are not referred to as a marriage

If I add a tag to the marriage group I achieve only (a) and (b). So is
there any other tag group that I can add a tag to that achieves (a),
(b) and (c)?

<snip>

> Or do you also have a tag for couples that do everything your
> "cohabiting" pair do, except they still live at separate addresses? Hmmm,
> does TMG have an event for "married, living separately"?

Good point but let's take one thing at a time? :-)

<snip>

> To me, the basis of the BMDB groups is that they, at least, tend
> to have an existance in church or civil records. They are the minimum that
> someone else could be expected to find records of...

My records might be some letters containing the details that I deposited
at the local Public record Office. Or they might be whatever I had
typed into my TMG database and then put on a web-site.

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe
For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org

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