Labels are fine for canned soup but with people ......... The Narrative
solution about adopted, verses non adopted.
Let me ring the ship's bell on this one!
My grandmother was married four times She had a son my father with the
first husband, and a second son with the second husband. She now on her
fourth husband. --this being in the 1920's. The two boys having two
different father's names, the mother changed their last name to the
fourth husband's name when they moved again. Years later the two boys
wanted to go into the military service. yet their name and their birth
records were different. So their mother had to go to a lawyer and sign
a general affidavit stating the correct legal name that is on the birth
certificate is the same person from the quoted "adopted surname" I
have searched for this legal paper since 1981. and just found it in the
archives of my father's military papers last year. (My father's service
records were over 600 pages.)
In another situation on my wife's sister's family had four children
from four different men. so the children grew up as a family unit BUT
divided. Divided because all had a different last name. Because the
sister (hippy) did not see that there might be a problem with the
family unity. Can you guess how the kids turned out! it's a very
looooong story. Just two sides of a relationship problem dealing with
adoption verses no adoption status with bio parents and adoptee parents.
What do these two stories have to do with Legacy-- record keeping. Keep
your records simple and easy. I listed my father before I found the
affiddavit as an adopted child to the fourth husband. That was because
my grandmother said so. AS for my sister-in-law children their all 1/2
sibling. and Legacy has the whereall to list the relationship
correctly. That's just my two cent worth. Keep to the KIS method Keep
it simple.
Bill Daniels
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