Adoptive Chinese Families and Other Qs

josephhoyt1

Hi Everyone,

I have a few questions that are mostly Chinese genealogy / ordinance related

• With adoptive children (not adoptive in the Western way, but in the ancestor veneration ritual sense), in Family Search, we link to both the biological and adoptive parents, but we seal only to the biological parents, is this correct?
• I have the names of a few people where I have the father's name and that of the father's sons, but not that of the wife/mother. Should I enter the wife/mother's name as 'Mrs. (husband's name) and have them sealed or leave the space blank?
• When a person has multiple names, is there a standard for which name should be the primary name in Family Search (e.g. should it be the one that would be included in the village poem?)
• When entering information into Family Search where there aren't dates (which is the case for 99% of the genealogy that I have), is there a standard for age gaps between people? Just curious what others are doing. I've been doing this:
  • Husband + 3 years = Wife
  • Wife + 20 years = first child
  • first child + 2 years = second child (etc.

Thanks!

Lena 吴志宏

Good questions, josephhoyt1!

• With adoptive children (not adoptive in the Western way, but in the ancestor veneration ritual sense), in Family Search, we link to both the biological and adoptive parents, but we seal only to the biological parents, is this correct?

1) My suggestions are: Normally the family tree records the bio/adopted parents and seals with them. I don't understand what the " Adoptive parents in the sense of worshipping" means. Worship someone who has no bio/adopt relationship, shouldn't be listed on the family.

2) Yes, if the info does not have the wife's name， you can use "male's whole name + 夫人"， without space.

3) When the person has a lot of names, i suggest using a name that includes the generation letter. The rest of the names you can add under this person's homepage. Under the "other information" section, you can list/add all the other names if you want.

4) There is no standard rule. Try your best to be more reasonable would be fine.

Thank you,