ALAN -- Sorry, but I'm not following you. I just put a sample couple in my d.b. to use for this, plus a "new" father by the mother's remarriage. Then I added a child, Jimmy, to original biological parents. When I highlight Jimmy, thinking I'm going to add him as an adoptive child of his step-father, it displays in the "Add Parent" window the ORIGINAL biological parents for Jimmy. I don't know how to get from there to the new father (step-father). He is not displayed and once I'm at this point I can select type of parents (step, adoptive etc.) but I can't go from that point to the new father as the biological parents (both) are displayed at this point. Can't get from point A to point B, I guess. Can you make it plainer for a dummy like me? Thanks for step-by-step. Keep in mind that we want this to end up showing that Jimmy is the adopted child of ONLY the one parent . . . not both, for after all, he is the natural child of one of them. --Fred Houts, Brooklyn Center MN In a message dated 6/4/2005 10:03:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time, alanjones10@cox.net writes: Let say you have the biological family in PAF, and then the parents divorce or one dies, and the other remarried. You add the person's new spouse. THEN go to the child of the biological parents highlight the child, click on ADD .... OTHER PARENTS.... Select the new step/adoptive parent. In this say window where you select the person, you select the type of parent adoptive, guardian, etc.