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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: zetlander on Monday 01 April 24 15:38 BST (UK)
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Should we include babies who are stillborn in our Family Tree?
15 years ago my niece's baby died 'in utero' two weeks before the due date and this baby is named and included in the Family Tree.
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Up to the individual I would say.
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I agree with Milliepede.
My great grandmother had 2 stillbirths in 1903 and 1906. A cousin has a copy of the Deeds to the Family Plot and the 2 babies are listed as buried there. We don't know whether they were boys or girls but these babies are included in the Family tree. One as a boy and the other as a girl.
My daughter had 2 early miscarriages in 2000 and 2003 and the family certainly acknowledge these lost babies.
Dorrie
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My mother was one of twins. Her sister was a stillbirth, but is included in my family tree.
More for the twins aspect, as we are proud of the4 successive generations of twins in the family!
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I usually include stillbirths where I find them in burial records.
It helps when working out whether I have found all children of a marriage.
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Only two in my tree and my wife's (one in each) but they are both included.
Regards
Chas
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I also include them.
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Why wouldn't you include them? A stillbirth is an event in the life of the mother. I make a note of all known events - graduation from high school, vacation trip to the Columbian Exposition, purse snatched at the train station, winner of the potato race at the village fair. Whatever.
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I also include stillbirths if I find any instance of them, and also take a note of any miscarriages I know of through family stories.
On my Ancestry tree I liked to add as much as I can, and even add notes briefly explaining my research of a certain ancestor event etc.
We scattered my dad's ashes 2 days ago on 31 March 2024, and I added the final funeral date on his profile on Ancestry but got the "date warning" saying it was after the death date, when I added it as a custom event of "Ashes scattered".
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I always include details of children stillbirths if information is found. Years ago my mother's cousin sent me a list of her 6 siblings, their spouses and all their children. Some of the children had * next to their names and her note said she included all the children, even those who were stillborn or died shortly after birth as they had been and still were part of the family. I remember my mother looking at the list and saying there were a few that she hadn't heard mentioned at the time they died or there were some that were vaguely mentioned in passing years later (each of the 6 cousins (one didn't have children) had last at least one child, some two or more).