From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ebbccbc114d641e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-23 09:09:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD5963F.79A68CE0@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Remarriages, how common is it? [off-topic] References: <3BD498DF.27E8B66C@otelco.net> <9r32tg$kkl$1@newstoo.ericsson.se> <3BD590E9.DF0A8D31@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:09:35 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1003853381 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:09:41 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:09:41 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15092 Date: 2001-10-23T11:09:35-05:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <3BD590E9.DF0A8D31@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, Wes Groleau says... > >In my mind the biggest flaw in GEDCOM is the assumption > >that every person is a child of exactly one family and > > That would be a bit of a problem. How would it handle adoptions? Presumably > you'd like to track back both the genetic and adoptive lines. I'm not a > geneology person myself, so perhaps I'm wrong about what they care about. That's one of the many reasons I consider it a flaw. And I'm not alone. Technically, the GEDCOM syntax would allow being in multiple families, but the semantics don't and most software packages obey the semantics better than they obey the syntax. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau