My own ancestry has a similar adoptive situation. The mother died in
childbirth of twins ZELLHOEFER leaving 4 children. The father remarried a
widow w/child, 3 more children, then father died in the Civil War, and his
now widowed again wife#2 did not keep the 4 children of wife#1. The twins
were "adopted" by KLOTZ of another Wisconsin county, Mrs Klotz being too old
to have been the natural mother of the twins, but the twins were ever after
named "Klotz".
All this was during the pioneer settlement days in pre/early statehood
Wisconsin. Recordation of documents in those early days was not required
and thus sporadic. Searched to exhaustion, none of the key birth / marriage
/ adoption / death / probate instruments are of record. We have found
nothing re: dispostion of the twin's siblings. Evidence is only family lore
and a single newspaper clipping which lists the attendees at a
Klotz-Zellhoefer reunion 71 years later.
My own solution to the posting dilemma was to give the twins the surname
Zellhoefer-Klotz, posting them as the natural children of Zellhoefer, and
including them as the adopted children of Klotz. Appropriate notes are also
included within their individual records so as to clarify all.
I just checked my Legacy pedigree-format webpages for the above, and find
that I would need to add an adoption event to these records, and also need
to clean up some of my own notes!
A Legacy problem visible at my http://zelltree.com/pedigrees/11.htm:
I also found that the parent links shown in the "Family Links" box don't
work as expected, moving back to the subject individual rather than to
either the natural or adoptive parents. These webpages were produced July
2004 so thus using an earlier version of Legacy. I will be republishing
fairly soon, and will recheck to seen if that and/or other problems remain,
but having just gone thru all this in order to write this E, I see several
Legacy "report" items to be watching for, and will report again later.
RonKZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 May, 2005 07:34
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative Book - child status
If there was no legal adoption then the child should not be listed as
such......she should be listed with her own bio nuclear family. That said,
if the bio family is blood related then that is the end of it (notes of
course to clarify) but if she was the child of a non related family, i. e.
friend, and raised as one of their own then it is not so easy. You can
certainly show this individual in the "adoptive" family as well but be
very clear with your explanation as to just who she is and the
circumstances as to the connection with the new family. Or, you can leave
her off the children listing and in notes, or an event, lay out the
situation in detail. If you decide to list her be sure to use the proper
surname, not the name of her new family as this would be incorrect. I see
nothing wrong with showing her as a child as long as the name is correct
and details are recorded elsewhere.
Tom.........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative Book - child status
Hi, Tom
you wrote
I did not receive this original thread
no worries ... my problem is, an "adopted" child who is listed exactly
the same as the biological children in the family sentence, thus
"John Lewis and Elspeth Beatson married ... they had four children,
Elizabeth, John, Janet and James."
Because the surnames are not shown, you can't tell that Elizabeth was
_not_ their biological child, her surname was _not_ Lewis but Morwood.
if the last name was not changed then the individual
*usually* is not a court ordered adoption.
there was never a
formal adoption process.....the term used, however, was "adopted". In
these cases the individual can be placed in both families but
"adopted" should be used *only" when it is a legal court action.
I have found no record of formal adoption, but the word "adoption" was
always used in the family. So what does one call the relationship??
Cheers,
Mary Young
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