Hi Peter Perhaps I'm stating the obvious here but if somebody adopts a child after the death of her husband - who would, by virtue of the laws of nature, physics even common sense (which I appreciate might not be too common) never have seen the child, except in some post mortem, cosmological way - how can the child claim to be a child of the marriage (which is dissolved with the death of the partner) and surely any descendants of that child cannot claim the male - DEAD - person as an ancestor. They may have inherited a name, but that is all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Doesn't mean that they are his descendants at all, just her legal descendants. Regards Tony Fuller