Have a look at Asa Clark Brown in the Sample family. He has two sets of parents. Your adopted person could probably be the same. Boyd On 13/11/2014 10:40 a.m., Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 12/11/2014 19:58, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: >> 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 daughterâ€, 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. > I would handle it just as you describe. >> 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. >> > You just need to decide which name to giver has the "main one" and which > one to use as the AKA. > > My daughter was not adopted by her step-father, but took his surname a > couple of years after our marriage and has used it ever since - about 30 > years. I have put that name as the AKA and left her birth surname as > the main one because it's the one which matches her parents and the one > which is on her birth certificate. >
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