Mike, there are probably various ways to do this depending on the
situation. However, I would:
1. put in initially her under the Steinway family and note the
adoption at the bottom of the screen where you enter her personal
info. I would use that name as if it were the maiden name due to the
amount of time it would have been used by her.
2. add in the biological parents kind of like you would if a divorce
and remarriage took place.
3. I would add her Cassebeer as an alias, not change it under her
biological parents. Depending on when she was adopted, she may never
have used that name except on adoption papers.
God bless,
Ellen Kramer
On Aug 30, 2009, at 9:23 PM, michael barberi wrote:
I have an ancestor with the surname CASSEBEER. However she was
adopted by a STEINWAY family as a child. I recorded her surname as
Cassebeer.
Some questions:
1. Do I record her surname as CASSEBEER followed by a parenthesis
(Steinway)?
2. Do I record her surname as CASSEBEER but create and Event/Fact
describing her adoption and new surname STEINWAY? If so, any tree
charts will not show her name as STEINWAY.
3. He marriage record says that a STEINWAY (not a CASSEBEER) got
married. Do I include notes about her adoption in the Event/Fact
MARRIAGE, etc.
Mike Barberi
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