If he acted as your father and raised you, I would be very tempted to list you as adopted but then add a note that although he raised you, he never did the paper work to make it a legal adoption. A lot of people were raised that way before there was a legal adoption process. And a lot of people are assuming they are tracing their ancestors and they are not for that reason.
Also, add the data you collected for his ancestry to FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com and Rootsweb. No sense wasting all that effort, and it will help someone else in the future. Have you done the FamilyFinder test at FamilyTreeDNA.com? You might be surprised. Jay Ingalls ====================== On 8/13/2014 2:27 PM, Larry Lee wrote: > I would like to know how to handle this. > > The man who is named on my official birth certificate is not my > biological father. All of my life up until both parents died I did not > know this. Technically I am not adopted and he is not my true father > but I don't see any way to denote this other than a birth note. Any > suggestions? > > It is not an issue for me other than I don't need to show any > ancestors for him and wasted a lot of time climbing a wrong tree > unnecessarily. > > Larry Lee > ldlee...@gmail.com <mailto:a...@gmail.com> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
