Adoptees are put into my tree, but there is a place for notes. Iffy - not sure, but could be relatives - are also put in with a comment and tick for further research. Comments like "could this be the long lost cousin?" As adoptees are not often blood relations, it would be an affront to their parents to leave hem out of a family tree. They are family in all ways but blood ties. Know that many will diagree with me. Lauraine > > From: "faye rees" <fmrees@nycap.rr.com> > Date: 2009/08/09 Sun AM 09:24:33 CDT > To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was My > Grandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! > > > > One problem, IF I had ever started typing up a data base of my ancestors, > how do you include people who you "think" is an ancestor? :o) > > Betty raised an interesting question - how do people deal with these > folks??? Do you use a separate tree? Hang onto the information on paper > until you find the connections??? Our traditional, for lack of better term, > ancestors or ancestor-relatives include First Lady Lucretia Rudolph, Henry > Morgan, and the Rudolphs of Hapsburg - it could be interesting to track > their lines and see if an how they connect with those who are known, but how > to do it when using genealogy software? Pain to take them all out if the > traditions prove wrong....... > > So how do you on the list handle these possible tree members? > Thanks > faye > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

If you were using Family Tree Maker, there is a place on the Tool Bar..... ...click on PEOPLE, then in the Drop-down list, click on.. Add unrelated individual. Your person will be in the index, but not connected to your family until you put in the information needed to connect them or merge them. Good luck Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <syrnick@mts.net> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was MyGrandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! > Adoptees are put into my tree, but there is a place for notes. Iffy - not > sure, but could be relatives - are also put in with a comment and tick for > further research. Comments like "could this be the long lost cousin?" > > As adoptees are not often blood relations, it would be an affront to their > parents to leave hem out of a family tree. They are family in all ways > but blood ties. Know that many will diagree with me. > > Lauraine >> >> From: "faye rees" <fmrees@nycap.rr.com> >> Date: 2009/08/09 Sun AM 09:24:33 CDT >> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was >> My >> Grandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! >> >> >> >> One problem, IF I had ever started typing up a data base of my >> ancestors, >> how do you include people who you "think" is an ancestor? :o) >> >> Betty raised an interesting question - how do people deal with these >> folks??? Do you use a separate tree? Hang onto the information on >> paper >> until you find the connections??? Our traditional, for lack of better >> term, >> ancestors or ancestor-relatives include First Lady Lucretia Rudolph, >> Henry >> Morgan, and the Rudolphs of Hapsburg - it could be interesting to track >> their lines and see if an how they connect with those who are known, but >> how >> to do it when using genealogy software? Pain to take them all out if the >> traditions prove wrong....... >> >> So how do you on the list handle these possible tree members? >> Thanks >> faye >> >> When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I >> find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the >> SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there >> is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. >> >> To search the archives: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION >> The information page is: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I > find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the > SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there > is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Norma And everyone else for your suggestions I had missed that feature in Family Tree Maker - I am still trying to learn the program! Again thanks faye -----Original Message----- From: can-usa-migration-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:can-usa-migration-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of nmoug Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:02 PM To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - wasMyGrandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! If you were using Family Tree Maker, there is a place on the Tool Bar..... ...click on PEOPLE, then in the Drop-down list, click on.. Add unrelated individual. Your person will be in the index, but not connected to your family until you put in the information needed to connect them or merge them. Good luck Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <syrnick@mts.net> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was MyGrandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! > Adoptees are put into my tree, but there is a place for notes. Iffy - not > sure, but could be relatives - are also put in with a comment and tick for > further research. Comments like "could this be the long lost cousin?" > > As adoptees are not often blood relations, it would be an affront to their > parents to leave hem out of a family tree. They are family in all ways > but blood ties. Know that many will diagree with me. > > Lauraine >> >> From: "faye rees" <fmrees@nycap.rr.com> >> Date: 2009/08/09 Sun AM 09:24:33 CDT >> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was >> My >> Grandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! >> >> >> >> One problem, IF I had ever started typing up a data base of my >> ancestors, >> how do you include people who you "think" is an ancestor? :o) >> >> Betty raised an interesting question - how do people deal with these >> folks??? Do you use a separate tree? Hang onto the information on >> paper >> until you find the connections??? Our traditional, for lack of better >> term, >> ancestors or ancestor-relatives include First Lady Lucretia Rudolph, >> Henry >> Morgan, and the Rudolphs of Hapsburg - it could be interesting to track >> their lines and see if an how they connect with those who are known, but >> how >> to do it when using genealogy software? Pain to take them all out if the >> traditions prove wrong....... >> >> So how do you on the list handle these possible tree members? >> Thanks >> faye >> >> When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I >> find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the >> SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there >> is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. >> >> To search the archives: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION >> The information page is: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I > find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the > SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there > is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. To search the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION The information page is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

FYI - Also in Family Tree Maker, you can also put the curser on a child, go to "People", the same drop-down menu and click on "other parents". This feature will also allow you to assign adoptive parents and note natural parents as well. We adopted my two cousins and when I pull up my cousin, the two children appear as well as when I click on myself, they appear again. Donna

I do that when I run across someone who has a family name, but I cannot place them. I just enter them on a new page, and their names appear in the List right along with the rest of the family with the same name........ IF? I find a way to connect them later, I already have their vital information, perhaps marriage and childen?,,,, and it's easy to just put them together. Otherwise, by the time I locate their proper place, I probably would have lost track of all the data about them. mas -----Original Message----- From: can-usa-migration-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:can-usa-migration-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of nmoug Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:02 PM To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - wasMyGrandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! If you were using Family Tree Maker, there is a place on the Tool Bar..... ...click on PEOPLE, then in the Drop-down list, click on.. Add unrelated individual. Your person will be in the index, but not connected to your family until you put in the information needed to connect them or merge them. Good luck Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <syrnick@mts.net> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was MyGrandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! > Adoptees are put into my tree, but there is a place for notes. Iffy - not > sure, but could be relatives - are also put in with a comment and tick for > further research. Comments like "could this be the long lost cousin?" > > As adoptees are not often blood relations, it would be an affront to their > parents to leave hem out of a family tree. They are family in all ways > but blood ties. Know that many will diagree with me. > > Lauraine >> >> From: "faye rees" <fmrees@nycap.rr.com> >> Date: 2009/08/09 Sun AM 09:24:33 CDT >> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Near or not so near relative ancestors - was >> My >> Grandmother's Story? HOORAY !!!! >> >> >> >> One problem, IF I had ever started typing up a data base of my >> ancestors, >> how do you include people who you "think" is an ancestor? :o) >> >> Betty raised an interesting question - how do people deal with these >> folks??? Do you use a separate tree? Hang onto the information on >> paper >> until you find the connections??? Our traditional, for lack of better >> term, >> ancestors or ancestor-relatives include First Lady Lucretia Rudolph, >> Henry >> Morgan, and the Rudolphs of Hapsburg - it could be interesting to track >> their lines and see if an how they connect with those who are known, but >> how >> to do it when using genealogy software? Pain to take them all out if the >> traditions prove wrong....... >> >> So how do you on the list handle these possible tree members? >> Thanks >> faye >> >> When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I >> find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the >> SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there >> is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. >> >> To search the archives: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION >> The information page is: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I > find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the > SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there > is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. To search the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION The information page is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message