A travel of finding one's family origin's in this Merry-Go-Round World. On this blog I will hopefully help someone find themselves. My plan is to post Helpful hints and Links to places that will help them do just that.

How to add Adoptive and Biological parents to someone on Ancestry

Ever have one of those  kin that are adopted and then find or know their blood parents and want to add them to our tree on Ancestry and don't know what to do.  here are the steps (names and all have been changed on this as living persons on my tree)

STEP#1.  GO TO THE INDIVIDUAL VIEW OF THE CHILD

DIRECTLY BELOW THEIR NAME AT THE TOP YOU WILL SEE A BOX  STATING EDIT THIS PERSON   CLICK ON THAT AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE PAGE TO EDIT  ANY AND ALL INFORMATION ON THIS PERSON.   ONCE ON THAT PAGE CLICK ON THE RELATIONSHIP TAB

STEP #2.  THIS TAB WILL TAKE YOU TO THE PAGE FOR ALL PARENTAL AND SPOUSE CONNECTIONS.  TO ADD A PARENT  YOU SIMPLY CLICK ON  LETTER A   ADD AN ALTERNATE  UNDER THE FATHER AND OR MOTHER TAB  HERE YOU WILL ADD OR CONNECT TO THE PERON ON YOUR TREE OR ADD TO YOUR TREE THAT IS THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OR ADOPTED PARENT.
STEP#3   LETTER B  SHOWS YOU HOW IT WILL LOOK WITH BOTH LISTED  WHEN YOU ADD THE SECOND IT WILL ASK YOU WHICH YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PREFERRED MEANING  THE MAIN ONE THAT SHOWS. FOR ADOPTED CHILDREN USUALLY THE ADOPTED PARENTS

STEP #4  UNDER LETTER C  THIS IS WHERE YOU CHANGE THE RELATIONSHIP . USE THE DROP DOWN TO CHANGE FROM BIOLOGICAL TO ADOPTIVE, GUARDIAN, FOSTER, OTHER.    AFTER YOU CHANGE IT A SAVE BUTTON WILL APPEAR TO THE RIGHT OF IT   DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE  OR IT WILL NOT.   THEN GO TO THE BOTTOM AND HIT THE OTHER SAVE BUTTON AND WALLA  YOUR DONE ADDED A NEW PARENT.


HERE IS A SHORT VIDEO OF THESE STEPS.;   

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