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Fostered or Adoptive Parents

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Allan

Allan Report 14 Mar 2017 04:25

Is it possible to add the parents who fostered or adoptive a person in my tree. I believe that the adoptive parents were a relative to my husband mother and it is this family that I am trying to trace.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 14 Mar 2017 10:28

Assuming you mean a tree on GR -

If you already have the birth parents entered, then you can't add more "parents".
You can mention the adoptive parents in a note, but they won't show up if anyone's doing a search for them.

If you don't have the birth parents entered, you could add the adoptive parents as if they were birth parents, but add a note to explain.

Neither option is ideal, but I think they're the only possibilities on GR, unfortunately.

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

Allan

Allan Report 14 Mar 2017 20:53

Thank you ArgyllGran for your reply. Unfortunately I have the birth parents and adopted parents and wanted to add both so I could further my Evans research. Believe that both are related. Maybe develope another family tree.
Just for reference my break in my research for a fostered baby was found in the 1939 Registry which the population of Britain/England had to registry and give their birth name. Maybe I was lucky because they had the same surname and carried the same christian names and known christen name.