Not so strange at all! I have one family where the husband had three children already when he married the second wife. Shortly after marriage, all the children were put into an orphanage and the couple disappeared. Another family, did the same thing. Two children were put into orphanages for a short period of time then were reunited.
I know in the DC area, and probably other areas, when the father died the children were considered orphans and were often placed into the care of other relatives. This was common in my family so it is a nightmare trying to figure out how the child is connected. ------- Bill Boswell From: Genealogy mail [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering adoptions Scott, Do you have any proof that Maud was William’s child? Seems strange that if she was his, that once he married, that he would leave her behind. Perhaps she was orphaned in 1881 and Elizabeth adopted her sometime between 1881 and 1891 (adoption record?). If any of this is true then she would not be listed as a child of William but rather as an adopted child of Elizabeth. You would then go into the child settings and change her status as adopted and neither parent as natural. Source the info as the 1891 census with a note of your conclusions or what ever you found out. Leave her Name as Maud Mary Bulmer with the AKAs as I previously suggested. Then if you ever find who her natural parents were then you can add additional parents and show her relationship to them. Russ Strong Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
