My grandmother was illegitimate. Where do I list her on FamilySearch Tree?
My grandmother did not know who her biological father was. Her mother later married and my grandmother took on the name of her step-father, although she was never legally adopted. However, she was later sealed to her step-father. Where do I list her on the family tree? I have been searching for her biological father using DNA and am getting close to finding him.
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The Family Tree on FamilySearch allows as many parents (individually and/or in sets) as are needed to reflect the person's life.
For example, my great-grandmother was illegitimate, and while her mother later married, my ggm never shared a roof with that man, so I haven't entered a relationship between them: my ggm only has one parent, her mother. My spouse's great-grandmother, on the other hand, had three half-brothers from her mother's first marriage, and they were all formally adopted by her father, so the three brothers each have two sets of parents in the Tree.
Those are just two of the possibilities. It sounds like for your grandmother, you should currently enter her with two sets of parents: once just her mother alone, and once her mother and stepfather. If you find her biological father, you can either enter him as her parent by himself, or add him to her relationship with just her mother, depending on whether they had any sort of couple relationship or not.
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Julia,
Thank you for your answer. I had no idea that I could enter more than one set of parents. I really appreciate your timely help!
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I have an adopted relative who has 3 sets of parents. Biological mother and her later husband; biological father and his wife; finally the adoptive parents. I have added that relative to all 3 sets of parents with the correct relationship. It is so easy to see the paternal half-siblings, the maternal half-siblings and the adopted siblings all separated and organized.
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