ChristelleJvR 0 Report post Posted October 22, 2009 According to family records (a beautiful handwritten family tree by my great-grandmother), my great-grandparents had two children that both died a couple of days (1 day and 2 days for the other) after they where born. I have the dates, as well as full funeral information (witnesses, dates, etc) for these babies. They are however only listed as "seun, sterf ongedoop" which translates as "son, died without being named (christened)". What would be the best way to add these babies to my records? I do not want to give them no names, because that is how I treat people where I do not know who they were (or have only a surname), and I want those to show as "unknown" in my database. But I know these babies were not given names, so they are not "unknown". I am sure my family can't be unique... Thanks in advance for any help. Christelle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robert Jacobs 0 Report post Posted October 22, 2009 According to family records (a beautiful handwritten family tree by my great-grandmother), my great-grandparents had two children that both died a couple of days (1 day and 2 days for the other) after they where born. I have the dates, as well as full funeral information (witnesses, dates, etc) for these babies. They are however only listed as "seun, sterf ongedoop" which translates as "son, died without being named (christened)". What would be the best way to add these babies to my records? I do not want to give them no names, because that is how I treat people where I do not know who they were (or have only a surname), and I want those to show as "unknown" in my database. But I know these babies were not given names, so they are not "unknown". I am sure my family can't be unique... Thanks in advance for any help. Christelle There are several such misfortunes in my family. I use the family name and "Infant" if the sex is unknown and Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl" for given names. formerprof formerprof Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mairicam 0 Report post Posted October 22, 2009 What would be the best way to add these babies to my records? I enter these children as Surname, Boy (unnamed) Surname, Girl (unnamed) Surname, Child (unnamed) Marianne Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyH3rd 0 Report post Posted October 22, 2009 According to family records (a beautiful handwritten family tree by my great-grandmother), my great-grandparents had two children that both died a couple of days (1 day and 2 days for the other) after they where born. I have the dates, as well as full funeral information (witnesses, dates, etc) for these babies. They are however only listed as "seun, sterf ongedoop" which translates as "son, died without being named (christened)". What would be the best way to add these babies to my records? I do not want to give them no names, because that is how I treat people where I do not know who they were (or have only a surname), and I want those to show as "unknown" in my database. But I know these babies were not given names, so they are not "unknown". I am sure my family can't be unique... Thanks in advance for any help. Christelle I give them "Unnamed" as a given name and a note that they died before being named, I agree with you that they are a different class than "unknown". Unknown might or might not have been named but you know for a fact that these actually had no name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristelleJvR 0 Report post Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks so much for these replies. I think I will go with "Surname, Unnamed" or "Surname, Unnamed (Boy)" and its variants as well. Does anybody have good custom sentences for the birth and death tags of these children to share? Christelle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robmoff 0 Report post Posted October 23, 2009 Here in the UK the General Register Office uses Male and Female for unamed infants, as in Female JONES, just FYI. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
