Where would you suggest she go?

Question

In a given family, there are two brothers. The first brother has a biological daughter who was, in turn, adopted legally by the second brother. This daughter considers her adopted father as her real father and not her biological father.

If I were to put her into a family tree, where would you suggest I put her, with her biological father or with the one she actually considers her father?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

You enter her as the biological daughter of father #1 and adoptive daughter of father #2. Most programs have no problem handling the dual fathers.

Answer 2

She is both. Since the daughter is aware of her parentage, there is no ethical reason for withholding the information. Most computer programs are able to include a note for step, adoptive, foster, natural, and other parentage.

The thing about family trees is that you are looking at both the life of a person but you are also looking at the genetic link, so both relationships are important.

Answer 3

put her with the biological, but make a note that she was later adopted

Answer 4

The "technical" answer is that you use the bio parents if you have them..  don't forget, there is a mom involved here too, and that side is also her heritage.

As for ancestry.com.. I believe their policy is like that of other reputable genealogy sites : persons who are living, should not be online to begin with.  Your personal records (at home, on your computer) do not expose anyone to risk of id theft.

Answer 5

Why not both I mean can't you just put in parenthesis biological and in the other branch Adopted? If not Biological.