Adoptions
In Family Search, sadly, there is no obvious indication of when a child is adopted into any particular family.
Family Search should have a little quarter-inch dot that can be marked (or is marked) next to the name of any person in a family tree that was adopted; visually, it explains a lot when a person is part of a family, but their birthdate, etc. doesn't fit with a particular family. This is different from one who was merely raised in another family, be it with a relative or otherwise.
PLEASE develop a FamilySearch family tree in which an adopted person can show their birth family on the left side of the family tree (as in a circular version), and the adoptive family tree can be on the right side. People like me want to see birth and adoptive lines ON ONE CHART- I want a chart that I can click on, on any birth or family member/family, and work on family history and temple work. Even current charts or setup are still annoyingly complicated and make going from chart to chart a major headache for those of us who are adopted.
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I didn't read past your first sentence "In Family Search, sadly, there is no obvious indication of when a child is adopted into any particular family." See the attached screen shot that is highly edited because most people are still alive. Noted the center child is clearly adopted. Easy to see the word "Adoptive." In fact, this particular adopted person has 3 sets of parents attached. 1) the ones shown, 2) birth mom and her spouse and 3) birth dad and his spouse.
If you have a situation where you can't tell if someone was adopted, then that is an indication the child to parent relationships are not set correctly. I agree that birth lineage is extremely important.
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Also the date of that adoption can be entered in the Parent-Child Relationship section
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@RodFields1 You've just seen the helpful description from @Gail Swihart Watson about how multiple parents are shown on the person's profile page. I'd like to explain how FamilySearch makes it easy to deal with multiple parents on the Landscape pedigree view.
When a person has multiple parents, there will be an indicator to show this and allow you to easily switch. Here's a screen shot of one of my ancestors, Edward Ottley KWJW-2D4, who has two sets of parents. The little left-pointing arrow on the left edge of Edmund and Frances shows that there are multiple parents for Edward.
If I click that little left arrow, then I see this popup, which lets me choose among his parents:
If I choose Abraham and Frances, then the tree will be redrawn with Abraham and his ancestry shown in that part of the tree. Note that this action actually sets Abraham and Frances as the preferred parents for Edward, and that preference will be set for you until you change it again (either on Edward's profile page, or on the Landscape view as I just described).
So armed with these tools, I think you can see that FamilySearch actually does have very helpful support for multiple sets of parents (biological, adoptive, step, etc.) and you can quite easily change which branch you are working on.
I know that you hoped to have some sort of special view that shows two sets of parents at the same time, so this is not everything you wish for. But please realize that FamilySearch has to deal with the possibility of more than two sets of parents, so writing a lot of code just for the specific case of exactly two sets of parents probably isn't worth the cost. I deal with multiple sets of adoptive and biological parents all the time, and I find that the tools provided by FamilySearch allow me to research both branches pretty easily.
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