At 12/7/2017 20:50, Karla Huebner wrote >Just curious--how do people handle this? I've been aware that TMG considers >any primary parent-child relationship as if it wee biological, and have >just put up with it knowing that adopted family members and their >descendants end up looking biologically related to me. I wouldn't want to >leave them out of family trees, but... > >I know we've gone over this in years past, but that may have been before >DNA testing was common. TMG has not changed in this regard since before TMG v0.93. TMG considers the Primary Father and Primary Mother to be treated as biological parents regardless of the actual relationship. Unfortunately, non-Primary parents are just ignored. I have long thought that there should be some way for TMG to "automatically" report that a non-Primary parent was an adoptive, step, foster or whatever parent whether that parent was Primary or Non-Primary. When I add an Adoption Tag, I always add the adopting parent(s) as witnesses with the appropriate Tag and Witness Sentences. For Step-, Foster-, God-, and other parents, there is no equivalent Tag, so I just add a Note Tag with Sentences similar to the Adoption Tag. As to whether parents are Primary or Non-Primary, I select Primary for the adoptive (whatever) parent(s) if the child should show there and the biological parent(s) as Primary if the child should show there. In either case, the Adoption/Note Tag pretty much explains the situation. It is really a case by case situation. I had one adoption whose Primary parents for years were always the adoptive parents until the child was told that he was adopted. After that, I switched parents based on the focus of the report. Interestingly, my grandfather's 1st cousin was adopted. His son was also adopted. I have been in contact with his son, my 3rd cousin and found that he was also adopted. We have been working trying to find the circumstances of the three adoptions. My 2rde cousin has found his birth parents, and will be meeting with them soon. His adoptive father is still living, but we have not found his birth parents and odds are that we may not. Lee