How to change "preferred" Parents from the adopted parents to biological parents
I cannot figure out how to change the preferred parents from the adopted parents to the biological parents.
I have a great grandmother that I am trying to research, however; the information in my tree is based on the information from her adopted parents, not her birth parents. (I actually have 2 great grandmother's like this) ugh!... I am trying to show the DNA line rather than the who raised them line. At one point, I wanted to delete all the people from the adopted parents line, but I was sort of chastised for doing that. I do not understand what the problem would be because the current information (as adopted parents) is for those persons attempting to do "True" DNA genetic genealogy. What do I Do? Can someone please advise as to how I can do accomplish this. It drives me crazy and I want to delete my tree altogether. :(
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You do it from the child page. I have an adopted relative whose lineage I am doing and this relative has 3, not 2 sets of parents. Birth mom and birth dad never married but married other people.
Do not delete any true relationship from a person. If a child stayed with a couple for even one year that information should be on the tree with sources (if possible) and explanations.
When you go to the person page for the adopted child, you can see an on/off switch to show all parents. Near it is the option to set preferred parents. You can switch this as often as you like. In the case of my adopted relative, I change the preferred couple every now and then so that I can see the pedigree view of who I'm working on, either birth mom or birth dad.
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Thank you very much for this information. I do know how to do this, however; my goal is to find the biological information. The adopted information, which I also know every bit of, is not my focus and I feel it is not pertinent to a biological DNA Family tree.
Thank you again.
Shannon
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Family Tree is not a strictly biological DNA Family Tree and since it is a communal tree, we can't set our own rules as to who should and should not be in it like you might in a tree only you work in.
If the instructions were not clear on how to set the preferred parents here is an image:
The communal nature of Family Tree is also why you do not have a tree in Family Tree to delete. Whenever you are working in it, you are working on family lines that include all the other thousands of people who share common ancestors with you.
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@ShannonKeeter You have confused me by asking a question and then changing the subject when it is answered. You start off how to change preferred parents, and I answered that. You go to the child page where you can have as many sets of parents as apply to that child: adopted parents, guardian parents, foster parents biological parents and step parents. I have a close adopted relative whose birth lines I am researching. That relative has 3 sets of parents, adopted parents, birth mom and spouse, birth dad and spouse. Adopted parents are NEVER set as preferred, because - as you pointed out - it is informational and not lineage. So I switch the preferred parents based on whether I am researching birth dad or birth mom. Doing that tells the pedigree view which lineage I want to see.
In your second post, you indicate you know how to set preferred, but you don't say what your question is. Do you know the birth parents for the adopted person you are researching? In my case all of my adopted relatives know their biological parents. I use Ancestry and DNA to help me figure out potential lineage, and then used sources to verify. I have thoroughly documented the 4 generations of the adopted relative I am working on, and in fact have been in touch by phone or email with 3 of the birth relatives who are working on the same lineages.
If this doesn't answer your question, please re-ask.
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Sorry about my duplicate answer, I accidentally put in a "not" when I read the reply.
Are you having the same trouble that someone else was posting about? That all the research hints you are getting in task lists and such are for the adoptive line?
If so, the way around that is to ignore all those hints and use standard genealogical research methods, along with DNA, to determine the biological parents of the people in question. Then when work just on the research hints from FamilySearch that show up on those parents pages.
I generally stay away from the recommended tasks lists because mine are stuffed with hints about 9th and 10th cousins which is not where I'm working in Family Tree right now.
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