From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Mar 5 08:48:32 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k25FmWjb012383; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:48:32 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k25FmV5R019800 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:48:31 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k25DIYFI021666 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:18:34 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k25DIYOe021665 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:18:34 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k25BeKFI021407 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 06:40:20 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k25EA7ak015365 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 07:10:07 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Yukonangels@aol.com Sun Mar 5 07:10:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k25EA7jb015351 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 07:10:07 -0700 Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k25EA4cG024277 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 07:10:07 -0700 Received: from Yukonangels@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.29f.67208dc (1320) for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:09:54 -0500 (EST) From: Yukonangels@aol.com Message-ID: <29f.67208dc.313c4b32@aol.com> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:09:54 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5021 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] ReCOMMON LAW I followed the answers to this pretty close. I have one that I do not know how to handle. What if the parent is married to one person and has another's child. The Birth certificate reads the Husbands name, but if you follow that line then you loose the true lines of the child. Example: John Doe and Mary Doe are the married couple. Mary has an affair resulting in the illegitimate child. Name on birth certificate is Doe. In later years both the mother and Birth father tell the child the truth but never alter the birth certificate. So do you note on the child who the legal father is and do the search on the birth fathers line. Boy what a can of worms this has presented. Thanks for any help in advance. Margie