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Adoption of a person already in the family tree


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By ltmurph - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
My sister has three adopted children, two are siblings and the other a cousin who has several siblings.

Some of these siblings have also been adopted and they were all entered into the family tree without a problem, including the adopted parents when I intially entered them.  However, another who is already in the family tree has been adopted by a single woman.  I can not add her as the adoptive mother without the program insisting on there being a father, there is only a natural born father, not an adopted one.  How do I add the mother alone?  I have added her as an individual but can not link her using link as parent or link as child without the father and if I delete that box it deletes the parent/child relationship.
By GenoProSupport - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
GenoPro has no built-in handling for such a situation.  I would recommend using the Social Relationship (select the adoptive parent, press the keyboard key R and click on the child). Then, use a text label (keyboard key L) to specify "adopted by".  You may also change the color and style of the social relationship arrow.
By genome - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
ltmurph (13-Apr-2011)
I can not add her as the adoptive mother without the program insisting on there being a father, there is only a natural born father, not an adopted one.  How do I add the mother alone?  I have added her as an individual but can not link her using link as parent or link as child without the father and if I delete that box it deletes the parent/child relationship.
GenoPro does not insist that there is a father for an adopted child, but the adoption is to a family and not to an individual. You can certainly create single parent families with adopted children and the family line can be collapsed if required as in diagram b below.

http://support.genopro.com/Uploads/Images/eeb6baf6-2eb5-42b3-86e2-8251.png
By ltmurph - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The only problem, unless I am missing something, is that the child is already part of the family tree but is now being adopted.  I am not adding a child, I am adding an adoptive parent to a child who is already listed as having two natural parents one of whom is dead.  Will that work in that case and if so how do I do it?
By maru-san - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Create a hyperlink of the already existing child and create the new parents as shown by Ron. This hyper-linked child will replace the "adopted child" in the graph made by Ron.
By Howard53 - Thursday, April 14, 2011
ltmurph (13-Apr-2011)
The only problem, unless I am missing something, is that the child is already part of the family tree but is now being adopted.  I am not adding a child, I am adding an adoptive parent to a child who is already listed as having two natural parents one of whom is dead.  Will that work in that case and if so how do I do it?

Instead of hyperlinking you can just 'link as child' to the single parent and change the status of the link to Adopted Child:

http://support.genopro.com/Uploads/Images/6d7abdd7-2f60-42df-aa42-2aa6.png
By ltmurph - Thursday, April 14, 2011
Thank you.  That worked, all the kids are properly adopted.