Michelle, >if they make use of modern fertility options, there is going to be a >continuation of one or even both of those lines - though connected to each >other only legally. This time last year, I had not expected to need to record such a family relationship. I had an entry for a cousin, herself childless, and who was one of the first batch of relatives to be entered into my genealogy database. By the most unexpected fluke, I discovered that she was an adopted child, not the natural child of her parents. It turns out that late in life she had put her adoption papers on a dedicated internet web site where these things can be sold. It was my own sister who found the web site with adoption papers listed, and sent it to me as the family historian. Double-take hardly describes my reaction. I now have it confirmed, and Legacy is able to cope with adoptions. I discovered, too, that her sister is also adopted, but the sister is also otherwise related to the adoptive parents. So, adoptions with family connexions, adoptions with none ; and again just recently, I now find I have to record same sex relationships where at least one of the pair already has natural children by a previous relationship, and adoptive by a new. I can imagine that this is going to be a technically tricky thing to implement in any genealogy database system. At present, it's getting quite string-and-sealing-wax to record some of the information I've uncovered.
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