Good News ! 1911 Census!

[Nick29]

Will people even bother to research the genealogy of the current generation, when so few actually bother to get married these days ?

Working out who is the father of whom will be a nightmare !   Especially with single parent families   

[trish251]

Will people even bother to research the genealogy of the current generation, when so few actually bother to get married these days ?

Working out who is the father of whom will be a nightmare !   Especially with single parent families   

Although many don't marry, they do live as couples and fathers are mentioned on birth certificates, so I doubt it will be a nightmare. Rather like the parish councils, fathers are chased by "welfare" to pay for their children - things don't change as much as we think 

As many women no longer change their names, it may be easier to track them - thus said one couple in my extended family married, they both kept their own surnames and their child has the mother's surname. That one may be tricky to trace 

Trish

[kerryb]

I am also assuming that in the future genealogy will be helped by the fact that other information about us all may be readily available online and make searching a little easier, especially if we have ID cards, no doubt they will be published online 

Kerry

[trish251]

I am also assuming that in the future genealogy will be helped by the fact that other information about us all may be readily available online and make searching a little easier, especially if we have ID cards, no doubt they will be published online 

Kerry

Gosh Kerry, you will have the privacy fanatics after your blood with comments like that & the Govt will be so disorganised they probably won't know who is who even with ID cards. Our lot can't even get a "smart card" to work for bus fares - what hope for an ID card.

Meanwhile, as mentioned on another thread, and stated many times by my father - to the horror of my mother - no one could ever be 100% sure of who was their father. DNA may change the odds 

Trish

[drodgers34]

Wo knows, your grnealogy may be a simple as taking a saliva test. Too easy and not challenging

[Nick29]

Although many don't marry, they do live as couples and fathers are mentioned on birth certificates, so I doubt it will be a nightmare.......  

Well, whilst not wanting to pre-judge, it's certainly not unusual these days to find women with 3 or more children, all with different fathers !  At least with Victorian genealogy, when you found the father of one, you usually could put his name to all of them (well, on paper, anyway   ).  I'm sure genealogists in 100 years time will have as many challenges as we do, but just different ones.  I suppose living in a nanny state with "big brother" recording our every move will benefit someone, even if it is in 100 years time !  

[Guy Etchells]

Nick29 I would disagree, the parish registers and bastardy records are littered with cases of mothers fathering children by different men.
Cheers
Guy

[toni*]

my children dont have different fathers but i am not married to their father and he is only on the middles ones birth cert as that is the only time he came to the reg. office 

[aghadowey]

Nick29 I would disagree, the parish registers and bastardy records are littered with cases of mothers fathering children by different men.
Cheers
Guy

Also agree with Guy. I know of many cases in 1800s were unmarried women had children by different fathers. In one particular case a local woman had 2 sons by one man, another son by someone else, several children with unknown fathers and then a child supposed to be by man she eventually married. At least 4 of the children were known by their fathers' surnames although their births were registered under her surname.
Although it sound as though she wasn't a 'good' person she not only raised all her children but ended up in later years caring for 3 sets of grandchildren when their mothers died and all the family turned out well.