Robin Kaspar replied: > Thanks MIchael, I’ll look into this. You are most welcome, Robin, hope it gives you ideas. > My own brother was adopted by my parents, and I’m also looking > for a solution that keeps him in the journal report > but makes it clear about the adoption. As my book mentions, I am also adopted so have given this a lot of thought. I chose the approach that Adoption is not a relationship, and thus I do not use TMG relationship tags to document it. I reserve those tags for genetic relationships. I decided Adoption involves two distinct *events* instead of relationships. Like any event in an ancestor's life your information about these events may be limited. You may have sketchy or detailed information about one or the other or both. First is the loss of linkage to the birth parents, usually involving signing over parental rights and giving the child up for adoption. Or the children may become orphans due to the death of the parents on some specific date. The second is the linkage to the adoptive parents, often involving a legal action asigning the children to the new parent(s). But the children may simple "move in" to a someone's home after some period of time and are accepted as their children without any specific legal actions. These two events likely occur at separate times and places and involve different parties, so I keep them as two completely separate TMG events. For example, my mother gave me to the adoption agency at birth, but I was not adopted until age two, so events documenting movements to different children's homes can exist between the two events. As for the information in the adoptive parents' journal report, with the adoptive parent(s) as Principal(s) and the child(ren) as Witness(es) to my single "Adopting" tag, with appropriate memos the events and linkages are clear in both the child's narrative and the parent's narrative. Hope this provides clarification to what I describe in my book. Michael