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[Don Chapman]

Hi:

I live in Canada.

I have been using genealogy software for more than 20 years, and have in the past -- although not recently -- tried many of the programs.

The program I currently use -- Ancestral Quest -- does not permit members of the same sex to be shown as spouses, and certainly has no provision for such a relationship to include children.  I have more than 50,000 individuals in my database, and in Canada, such relationships are legal and increasingly common.

In asking the following question, I am not particularly interested in a discussion about the nature of marriage, and viewpoints about non-traditional relationships.  My question is:  Is anyone aware if any of the existing genealogy software programs make provision for spousal relationships involving partners of the same sex?  And while I am at it, is there a software program that allows one to follow the maternal line, rather than the fraternal line?

Thanks

[jgr]

You have to create some custom tags, but it's easy to set up The Master Genealogist to do this. I have a civil union tag and a marriage tag for same sex partners.

[Don Chapman]

Ok.  Thanks.  Still interested in any other software.