Discussion

1. Paper

To Do

Notes

1. Definitions
   • Root marriage: the anchor marriage of the marital unit, usually the husband and first wife.
   • Root+1 marriage: the marital unit, as previously defined. The husband and all his currently-married wives
   • Root+$\infty$ marriage: the tribe / dynasty for a given person. The entire priesthood line. Does this also include biological line? I don’t think so.
2. History of marriage for a woman: one possible scenario that would be interesting to capture
   1. She is civil married to a husband, then later gets sealed (for eternity) to him
   2. Later, she is sealed to someone else
      • Case 1: she wanted to change up, and got sealed for eternity to someone else (in which case there would be a divorce/cancellation of the first sealing)
      • Case 2: she became a widow (first husband died), and therefore she was married (for time) into another marriage (this would have been a caretaker marriage for her).
        • She could have children with this second husband. The priesthood lineage would follow from her sealed for eternity husband/marriage. Therefore, the child would have two types of parent relations
          1. Biological parent: the parents the child was born to (the second husband). Property rights for the child will follow from the second husband (caretaker husband).
          2. Eternal (Priesthood) parent: the parents sealed for time of this child. Since the mother was sealed for time to her first husband, her children will always have that man as the eternal/priesthood parent. This father would be the man from the mother’s first marriage (sealed for eternity). Priesthood rights (office?) and lineage would follow the first husband’s line (sealed eterenity)
        • Interesting example and discussion (useful below)
          • If the woman’s first marriage has a higher priesthood status, then when she marries into another marriage, her children in the latter marriage are part of her first husbands line/lineage. However, the other children in this second marriage that are not blood relations to her are not included in that line.
          • Alternatively, her blood-related children are not included in the priesthood/patriarchal line of her second husband, unless she has been sealed for eternity to him.
3. Two types of tribes (and relationships)
   1. Priesthood
      • Priesthood / Patriarchal Father and Mother (PF,PM)
   2. Biological
      • Biological Father and Mother (BF, BM)
4. We’d want to show these two times of lineages and how the interact
   • Right now, we can show biological relationships
   • One diagram: parents of chord are only those sealed for eternity (at that given time point). The children on the right are only those who are Patriarchal children of those parents.
   • Another view: drqw the biological sankey diagram as is, but highlight in the biological diagram the patriarchal/priesthood lines
     • Therefore, we can see which children aren’t included in the patriarchal line when their mothers have been married twice, etc
   • Another: start with the patriarchal marriage, and show how the children’s biological lineages follow (start patriarchal and go out biological)
   • Or, show the biological diagram / organization, but only show the biological lines of those children who are priesthood/patriarchal children of the parents in the marriage (those sealed fro time)
     • So children and their descendents of a caretaker marriage would not be included in this diagram.
5. Birth right goes to the oldest living son
   • The first child at the time it’s being given, which might not be the actual first child of the marriage, if that original child has died
   • First child temporal definition: oldest surviving child at that given time point
6. Every relationship in the database needs a temporal aspect (Start and end dates)
7. Questions Kathleen wants to ask about the group of people we’re looking at (AQ and wives)
   1. How long have they been members of the church? (length of time from baptism to death)
   2. How long before they were members? (length of time from birth to baptism)
   3. Who was born at the same place they were baptised? (shared site of baptism and birth)
   4. Root goes to root+1? Unclear.
   5. Age of each person at the time of their marriage and rank of wife (if woman)? Which wife were they to their husband?
   6. Commonalities among wives in a root+1 marriage? Were these women married to the same man similar in certain areas?
   7. Commonalities of first (root) wives across the marriages?
   8. What office do the people hold when they enter plural marriages? (when they take their second wife)