Family Tree - Non-Blood Line
Dennis
family? I was taken in as a foster child at 4 years old, remained with them as
a son permantly and had my name legally changed to theirs at age 18 although I
always used their name from almost day one. No formal adoption.
TIA,
Dennis
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Michael Kenefick
My opinion is add yourself as adopted. Place many notes like what you
posted here.
Mike in Ohio
Steve W. Jackson
Michael Kenefick <kene...@copper.net> wrote:
I concur with Mike's suggestion. In a "purist" sense, genealogy is
about bloodlines and such, but most of us who do any of this have
encountered situations like yours. There's an adoption (even if not
formalized), or there's a child from one marriage adopted by a second
spouse who should "rightly" appear as part of that second family in
records. I've got several such appearing in my own records.
Should you have information on your "birth family" and want to include
the genetic side of things, most good genealogy software would surely
allow you to show yourself in both places (mine does), so that you'd
appear as child of your birth parent(s) and again as a child of your
foster parents with options to flag or mark certain things, make notes,
etc., to clarify and/or explain what it all means.
I was raised by my grandparents, but my Grandfather was technically a
"step" Grandfather and not blood. Nevertheless, I still attend family
reunions annually since I'm a lifelong member of that family. This
relationship has taught me that bloodlines and names aren't the only
things that matter in our family histories. This man is still the
Grandfather I remember daily with love.
= Steve =
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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
Fred McKenzie
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevew...@knology.net> wrote:
> There's an adoption (even if not
> formalized), or there's a child from one marriage adopted by a second
> spouse who should "rightly" appear as part of that second family in
> records.
I made up a chart for my Sister's Husband's Mother's family reunion.
Corrections and missing information was supposed to be added by the
attendees.
There was a complaint and "hard feelings" when one such person did not
appear on the chart! Fortunately, my genealogy program (Reunion for
Macintosh) has a way to include the adopted person as a child of the new
family. The updated version of the chart has him listed in the new
family, with no mention of an adoption.
When looking at the new family in the Genealogy program, he appears as a
child of the step-Father and his Mother. But when selecting him, he
appears with the adopted last name, as the child of his blood-Father and
his Mother.
Fred
D. Stussy
news:lrGdncz488jeMtrX...@giganews.com...
> If wanted to, how would it be noted if a family member was not born into
the
> family? I was taken in as a foster child at 4 years old, remained with
them as
> a son permantly and had my name legally changed to theirs at age 18
although I
> always used their name from almost day one. No formal adoption.
Name legally changed but no adoption? That seems inconsistent, especially
for the 20th century.
Hugh Watkins
In Family Tree MAker there is a drop own menu
other parents tp deal with this
Hugh W
cecilia
>>[...] taken in as a foster child at 4 years old
>> [...] legally changed to theirs at age 18
>
>Name legally changed but no adoption?
>That seems inconsistent, especially
>for the 20th century.
Not for someone born in the second half of the 20C in the UK.
There are cases of long-term fostering where the child is not
available for adoption - at 18 a child is an adult; an adult can
change surname.