I think I have waded through all the e-mails on this subject but suspect that somewhere in there I may have missed something, so I am going to post my question - "my" question because it is my family group sheet I'm discussing. I married, had a son and divorced. I have a fgs with my son, his biological father and me as mother. Fine; no problem. After I remarried, my second husband adopted my biological son. ( I state "biological" because I also have a "sealing" son as a result of this second marriage, but that's another subject, isn't it?) So now my second fgs shows my biological son as "adopted" which is correct as far as his adopted father is concerned. However, he is still my biological son and I have simply accepted the fact the the fgs in PAF is designed to show relationship to fathers, not mothers. Do I like this? Not particularly; I would like to see a designation such as "adopted/biological" as an option but until that happens (if it ever does), I just make certain my notes are full and complete of explanations. If anyone has a better way, please let us all know. I know I'm not the only mother who has this situation. Beverly -- Mailto:kngsldy@cableone.net Families are Forever!

Thanks to everyone for their input on biological and adopted parents. It seems that there is no way to show one adoptive parent and one biological parent associated with one child....so I will just make sure I have it all spelled out within the notes and in the "also known as" section. Thanks again for everyone's help. Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly" <kngsldy@cableone.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: [PAF-5] Re: Biological/adoptive parents - again! >I think I have waded through all the e-mails on this subject but suspect >that somewhere in there I may have missed something, so I am going to post >my question - "my" question because it is my family group sheet I'm >discussing. > > I married, had a son and divorced. I have a fgs with my son, his > biological father and me as mother. Fine; no problem. > > After I remarried, my second husband adopted my biological son. ( I state > "biological" because I also have a "sealing" son as a result of this > second marriage, but that's another subject, isn't it?) So now my second > fgs shows my biological son as "adopted" which is correct as far as his > adopted father is concerned. However, he is still my biological son and I > have simply accepted the fact the the fgs in PAF is designed to show > relationship to fathers, not mothers. Do I like this? Not particularly; > I would like to see a designation such as "adopted/biological" as an > option but until that happens (if it ever does), I just make certain my > notes are full and complete of explanations. > If anyone has a better way, please let us all know. I know I'm not the > only mother who has this situation. > > Beverly > > -- > Mailto:kngsldy@cableone.net > Families are Forever! > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > >