In article <[email protected]>, "Steve W. Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote: > There's an adoption (even if not > formalized), or there's a child from one marriage adopted by a second > spouse who should "rightly" appear as part of that second family in > records. I made up a chart for my Sister's Husband's Mother's family reunion. Corrections and missing information was supposed to be added by the attendees. There was a complaint and "hard feelings" when one such person did not appear on the chart! Fortunately, my genealogy program (Reunion for Macintosh) has a way to include the adopted person as a child of the new family. The updated version of the chart has him listed in the new family, with no mention of an adoption. When looking at the new family in the Genealogy program, he appears as a child of the step-Father and his Mother. But when selecting him, he appears with the adopted last name, as the child of his blood-Father and his Mother. Fred