Future of Genealogy

Issue #1 ---

"Eights months after Florida’s gay marriage ban was declared unconstitutional, the state is not allowing hospitals to list both same-sex parents on their babies’ birth certificates, according to a federal lawsuit recently filed by three gay couples."

"Earlier this month the first same-sex couple to be married in Florida, Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello, discovered the hospital would not include the non-birth mother’s name on the birth certificate for their twins."

"The lawsuit says the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics violates the U.S. Constitution by issuing “a certificate that falsely indicates that the child has only one parent.”"

Source:: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/birth-certificates-latest-battlegro...

Allene

I wonder how our ancestors, trying to record as they could for "their" posterity, dealt with their zeitgeist?

I have found my family Bible (1849 on) more relevant and accurate than other records but doesn't mention divorces. :)

Family bibles are goldmines. Seems all the family bibles in my family have been destroyed by fires.

I still lamenting my grandmother's bible which was so full of information that the margins were used and additional papers were added to bible.

Birth, Marriage, Death dates and sometimes confirmation material such as obituary or birth announcements.

I wish I was more into Genealogy then and could have preserve the information...especially since my grandmother rarely talked about the past. Yet, she seem to have documented it.