Firstly, you need to merge the two entries for this same person (Tools > Merge >Manual Merge is one way to get to the right place for this) - but what to call her is more difficult - see my thoughts below.
To access other relevant parts of the program mentioned below, right click on her when she is in the main position.
The easiest thing to deal with, once there is only one entry for her, is the multiple parents.
You can add more than one set of parents to a child.
Make sure you use the Add parents (link to existing) rather than Add mother/Add father or you will add unwanted marriages to the mother and father. You can't order the parents in the parents list - so add them in chronological order. You mark one set as preferred by selecting it when in the parent list. Then whenever you go to her, that set of parents will show.
When she is in the child position, right click on her and choose Children's Settings and add Child Status and Relationship to Father/Relationship to Mother. You need to do this for each set of parents so when filling in the boxes make sure you so it for the set of parents that are showing in the Main position on Family View.
This won't be neat in Family View if you have Show half kids as she will show twice under her birth mother. However the reports should read correctly, especially if you use the Relationship to Father/Mother options.
More difficult is what name to enter as the main name. The others are entered as AKAs.
Usually you enter the birth name.
However in this case, I think you should keep an eye on how you want the reports to read. Since from the age of 4 she was known as Florence, if she married I'm sure you'd want it to read "Florence married ... " rather than "Almira married ..."
If she had just been adopted once, I'd put her main name as Florence Marie THOMPSON.
However, since her birth mother adopted her back, I think I'd enter her as
Florence Marie UDELL - even though she never existed with this name combination. The surname switch to JOHNSON is more usual when a mother remarries.
Regardless of what you choose for the main name, you will obviously need notes and, for clarity, two adoption events.
Since you can't add notes to the Name, I usually add Name notes to the Birth Notes as most people are named at birth.
Regards, Cathy
At 15:00 20/03/2005, you wrote:
Hi - I just received some legal papers from a county courthouse, and although it's solved a puzzle, I'm not sure how to enter and/or correct the information I have in Legacy.
Let me see if I can explain these tangled family relationships:
My ggg grandfather Stacy Clay Thompson and his wife Ida May had three grown children. Their oldest daughter Claudia was married to Herbert Randall. Herbert's sister Eliza May (Randall) Udell had a daughter Almira Udell, born August 1893. Eliza's husband died and left her destitute.
In August of 1897, when Almira was 4 years old, she was adopted by Stacy & Ida Thompson (Almira's mother's sister-in-law's parents.) They changed her name to Florence Marie Thompson. Florence is listed on the 1900 census as an adopted daughter of Stacy & Ida Thompson.
In 1906 Ida May Thompson died and Stacy (presumably) couldn't care for a child. By that time Florence's (Almira's) own mother had remarried & regained property and status. Eliza May (Randall Udell) Johnson and her husband Garrett Johnson adopted Florence back, changing her name legally to Florence Marie Johnson.
In my Legacy database, I have Florence M. Thompson (as found on the 1900 census of Manistee, Michigan). I also have Almira Udell, daughter of Eliza May and Roland Udell, as I found it listed on her birth record. These two names are the same individual. How do I indicate that, along with her birth parents (Eliza and Roland), her adoptive parents (Stacy & Ida) and her stepfather (Garrett Johnson)? <snip> thanks for your help,
Claudia Breland
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