Family Tree for baby book?

Question

Do you think it's appropriate to have two family tree pages in a baby book for our adopted child? Adoptees - would you have wanted this? APs - have you done this?

We have the kind of baby book where you can add and take out pages, and I ordered a second family tree page. Since we'll only be matched with someone wanting a fully open adoption - we hope that our child's mother will fill it out for us. Anyone have any experiences with this?

Answer 1

A single or even a double tree didn't fit our family...  by the time we got our three generations there were over 290 slots on the wheel, and THAT was with incomplete information......

(adopted child, both parents adopted, one aunt adopted, one grandparent adopted....and LARGE families!)

Answer 2

Sounds like a fantastic idea....I'm gonna borrow your idea,

but I would like to hear from an adoptees perspective.

Answer 3

Our baby book was adoption friendly, so it had two family tree pages.  One page is the first family tree and the second page is the adoptive family tree.

With our youngest adopted daughter we will do the same.

If our kids have to do a family tree at school we're screwed.

Maybe a small forest made of three different trees with over lapping branches in the middle adoptive tree?  idk

Good Luck

Answer 4

Our son's bio grandparents provided us with a biological family tree when we brought our son home.  I took that information and combined it with our information to create one family tree.  

The branches of the tree are filled in with his adoptive family information (my husband's side & my side).  Then I drew "roots" to the tree.  On the roots, I wrote his bio family information.  

I placed his name in the middle of the trunk of the tree.  

I hope that he will see it as we do - two families combining in his life.