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Hi Julian,

Yes, other than creating a separate tree on a new registration, this would be the best approach.

Regards

Shelley

Hi Shelley,

Many thanks.

For now, I have taken Thelma's approach and "married" the mother to the adoptive mother with an explanation in the notes.

Julian

Hi Julian,

I have passed this one on to the development team - it's an excellent point. We will get back to you with a resolve.

Regards

Shelley

hello my oh is adopted so I put on my tree as if I had married him twice once in his birth name and then his adopted name

simples :-D

sally w <3

Thanks Thelma, that sounds like a great approach.

Budgie Rustler - that would make anyone's head spin!

There is another way but it still involves a small duplication.
Say Joe Bloggs became John Smith and married Ann Other.
Add both his names as partners of Ann.

Hi Julian, cant be done on GR`s Tree.
I had problems doing it on my off line tree (FTM) too, But I finally succeeded.
But it still presented me with a problem which I resolved by putting all relevant information in the adopted persons notes.

My mother was adopted at birth and raised as one of there own by one of my great uncles and a great aunt who married a year before my mother was born.
It is now showing on my tree that as well as being my mother, she is also my, 1st cousin 1x removed .

The stroke of luck that I had was that my mothers adopted parents were both blood related to her by both being siblings of both her parents.
ie her mother`s brother and her father`s sister became her adoptee parents.

Do you know ? I now know the whole story and yet it still confuses me. :-S
:-D :-D

Edit; just thought that makes my mother not only their adopted daughter, but she is their niece as well.... Oh! I give up, I`ll get my coat. :-(

Thanks for the suggestions. It would be handy if Genes Reunited catered for this - there must be a significant number of adopted people out there.

I do what Bernie suggests.
Depends which parents are in tree at the moment.
Real parents in tree, then add one adoptive parent as a partner.
Adoptive parents in tree, Then add a real parent.

I think you would need 2 trees as both sets of parents will have their own line.

I think that you would have to 'marry' one from each side so they become joint parents and then put the details in the notes. Of course, if the natural parents have each married someone else then it starts to get a bit long winded.
B

Does anyone know how to show someone's adoptive parents in a tree as well as their birth parents? Is this possible?