----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Love" > I've just tried something on my test file. Put the child as the son of his biological father. Enter the second marriage as normal. Use the Add new parents and change the status to adopted. Seems to me all the relationships are recorded properly and report so. > Graham > JOAN REPLIES: Graham, and the others that tried out a test case: You are right that you can correctly enter the information for one person under two families, and it looks great in the family view. The problem comes when you create a descent tree with this person as a descendant. They and all of their descendants show up twice, once under each family. This problem arises only when the adoption is within the family. I have two such adoptions in my family: My great-grandparents adopted their daughter's son after her husband died and she remarried. His last name was changed. After my son and his wife died, my daughter and her husband adopted their daughter and changed her last name. In both of these cases I want the descent/ancestor information to follow the biological line and the adoption line suppressed for reports, with the adopted child showing up in their adoptive families [whose name they took] but do not show in successive descent generations as descending from their adoptive parents; and the ancestor report to follow the biological line back.
Example: Joan has children Kerry and Mick. Kerry marries Michael, Mick marries Meg Mick and Meg have daughter, Holly After Mick and Meg die, daughter Holly is adopted by Kerry and Michael. Kerry and Michael have two biological sons and adopted daughter, Holly. Holly's ancestor report should be through Mick and Meg, with mention of her adoption and should show her adoption family for that generation only. Holly, of course, has the same ancestry from her father and adoptive mother since both were the children of Joan. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
