ADOPTED MBRS ability to CREATE MULTIPLE TREES (ADOPTED & BIOLOGICAL)!
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J M Fabiano said: Would like to suggest an additional option for ADOPTED members to create MORE THAN 1 FAMILY TREE... for both their adopted family AND their biological one!
For someone like me, who was adopted at birth & since the availability of DNA testing, it is very important to me to have both my adopted family tree (the only people/ family I've ever known/ grown up knowing the history of) AND also my biological family tree (that's just as important, finding out exactly from who & where I come from). I cannot be the only person that feels this way, as well as others within the tree that may have also been adopted somewhere along the line - before DNA testing became common place... their subsequent descendants wanting to trace back the truth of their biological roots (if/ when possible).
I sincerely hope that you might take this very common scenario into consideration & hope that you will accommodate people such as myself, that would very much benefit from being able to create more than just 1 family tree on this website.
**Also suggest the possibility of copy & paste from other family trees, which can sometimes reach into hundreds & even thousands of people/ branches, that would otherwise be beyond labor intensive & time consuming, especially when multiple trees are being used for cross reference. (ex. I have a few branches that actually extend into the 1300's, at which time it was often common for families to have 10-13 or more children alone! Then there were times that widowers often remarried more than once, as well as adding non-related children to the branch- which is someti.es difficult to sort out/ keep track of too!)
For someone like me, who was adopted at birth & since the availability of DNA testing, it is very important to me to have both my adopted family tree (the only people/ family I've ever known/ grown up knowing the history of) AND also my biological family tree (that's just as important, finding out exactly from who & where I come from). I cannot be the only person that feels this way, as well as others within the tree that may have also been adopted somewhere along the line - before DNA testing became common place... their subsequent descendants wanting to trace back the truth of their biological roots (if/ when possible).
I sincerely hope that you might take this very common scenario into consideration & hope that you will accommodate people such as myself, that would very much benefit from being able to create more than just 1 family tree on this website.
**Also suggest the possibility of copy & paste from other family trees, which can sometimes reach into hundreds & even thousands of people/ branches, that would otherwise be beyond labor intensive & time consuming, especially when multiple trees are being used for cross reference. (ex. I have a few branches that actually extend into the 1300's, at which time it was often common for families to have 10-13 or more children alone! Then there were times that widowers often remarried more than once, as well as adding non-related children to the branch- which is someti.es difficult to sort out/ keep track of too!)
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J M Fabiano said: For the same user creating dual trees, maybe have the option to check off & display 'type' of tree - with the tags BIOLOGICAL Family Tree and/ or ADOPTED Family Tree to differentiate the two... Would also help to explain (possibly to other family members/ other tree creators why DNA for that specific user doesnt show up as 'related') BUT also providing that (adopted) user/ tree creator a checkbox to choose the OPTION TO SHARE or to KEEP PRIVATE. - in the case of keep private, the initial tag BIOLOGICAL or ADOPTED Family Tree would only display for that user alone - ??? Still trying to sort out those details.0
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Anne Marie Willson said: Actually you can add more than one set of parents. Then you can build onto them and have multiple tree lines extending back from you. The thing you should remember about FamilySearch Family Tree is that it is a single inter-related tree and that the 'tree' that I see extending back from myself is only one branch of that tree.0
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Chas Howell said: You can add multiple parents to the child now, no problem showing biological, adoptive, guardianship and foster lines. Add/choose the relationship type from the "Add Relationship Type" drop down. What shows or not is a different issue. FamilySearch is one Public tree. Deceased show and Living do not.0
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Jeff Wiseman said: Hi J M Fabiano!
Welcome to the FamilySearch forum on GetSatisfaction.com. I am not an employee of FS, just another user of the system.
The relationship documenting capabilities that you seem to be talking about are already in the system. Any given person can have multiple fathers and multiple mothers, each with a different documented relationship type to that given person (e.g., biological, adoptive, step, guardian, etc.).
If you look at Cecil Fern Santee KVGH-DHV you can see that both of her biological parents, as well as her adoptive father are shown. Furthermore, you can see that her biological parents never really lived together (i.e., they were never a "couple"). This shows how you can track BOTH your biological roots as well as those from adoptive or step parents.
However, from the nature of your question, it sort of appears that you might not understand a few issues with the FamilySearch FamilyTree (please forgive me if I am mistaking here).
The FamilySearch FamilyTree is one single tree with nearly 1.2 billion names in it that belongs to FamilySearch where everyone has open edit capabilities. Nobody with an account on this website has their "own" tree (with the very small exception of people that they have entered into their "Private Space" who are still living). Any of the records in Family Tree that are deceased are all part of this one shared tree.
The entire tree and the supporting system is set up to eliminate duplicates in the system. If you were to try and create a brand new record in the system for a grandfather, it is entirely possible that a record for him already exists. If it does, eventually someone will come along and merge the duplicates together. Any person in history is supposed to be represented by a SINGLE record in the tree. Setting up duplicates for your own use will end up causing both you and others in the tree some grief.
So when you say "the possibility of copy & Paste from other family trees", if you are referring to other trees OUTSIDE of the one shared FamilySearch FamilyTree, there ARE already ways of bringing data back and forth. However if you were talking about "other family trees" within FamilySearch, they cannot exist based on the way the FamilyTree is structured.
This site is nothing at all like a pay for use site such as Ancestry.com where everyone gets their own private and protected space to build as many trees as they want in it. In FamilySearch there is only one shared tree that is owned by FamilySearch, but where everyone with an account can go in and provide continual improvements on a shared basis.
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Tom Huber said: For a long time, I didn't realize, until late in 2019, that I needed to follow my step-mother's line. They are all in the same massive tree. Keeping the lines straight is a minor problem, but doable. It just gives me a whole additional family line to follow.
It is very important to remember that the tree in FamilySearch is a massive tree for all of humanity. It is not a set of separate trees, loosely knit together, but a single tree that is designed to interconnect the entire human race as far as humanly possible from existing records. If we refer to our tree, it should be remembered that it is our branch of the massive tree that we are referring to, one to which a very large number of people have some kind of relationship, either ancestral in nature or as cousins of some level.0 -
Richard M. Smith said: My great grandfather was a married adult, in his 20's, when his mother was sealed to his "stepfather". When I want to follow that "sealing line", I click on that stepfather. I spend 95% of my time on my "blood line", but I have the option to study both....BTW, in "Finding your relationship", if someone is on that "sealing line", it still shows MY relationship to that person.0
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Is there a place where it shows you how to add and/or link biological parents to an adopted child? I was adopted and would like to link my biological parents to my adoptive family line without messing anything up!
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You can add 2 sets of parents to a child, then you select the type of relationship either biological or adoptive. Here is a help article than can help explain more https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-specify-biological-step-adopted-and-foster-relationships-in-family-tree
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