I just came across a little problem in my family file that I've never had to deal with before. It involves adopted children. which I've handled before but in this case it involves the adoption by a sister of the baby of a brother. In other words, both the natural parents and the adopting parents are in my family. Naturally I enter the child as being born to the natural parents but how do I show the child with the adopting parents (other than through notes)? If I try to enter a new child to the adopting parents as a "link to an existing daughter", the Legacy tells me that the child is already a child of another family and if I want to add as a child to this family also. I think that is what I should do and then change the child's settings to "Adopted" (for the adopted parents only). But now, do I change the surname of the child to the new adopted parents' names especially since her name appears that way in all future documents. I think this would be the correct way but I'm wondering if I haven't missed an obvious better method or might I be accidentally creating an endless loop of relationships.
And just some other wild thoughts, if I do change the adopted daughters surname, Legacy will change the surname of the daughter shown with the natural parents (after all, both listings of the daughter have the same RIN). But at the same time, it just seems weird to look at the family of the natural parents and then to see their daughter listed with a different surname. Brian in CA 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 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
