I have an individual who was adopted almost one year after birth. At the time of adoption his name was legally changed. I have added the Adoption Fact to the individual. However this dos not add the additional parents nor does it change his name. How do I add the new parents and show them as adoptive parents and how do I change his name?

#1
Posted 19 December 2014 - 04:22 PM
#2
Posted 19 December 2014 - 10:07 PM
There is more than one way to connect a child to parents as you will see from a quick look in Help: right-click on the child and select from the drop down list or navigate to the couple in Family View and click on the Add a child link in the space below them. Once linked to the adoptive parents, open the Edit Person screen for the child and set the relationship to the parents to "Adoptive", although that has no known effect at this time, either.
Tom user of RM7630 FTM2017 Ancestry.ca FamilySearch.org FindMyPast.com wiki, exploiting the database in special ways >>>
app, a bundle of RootsMagic utilities.
#3
Posted 20 December 2014 - 11:59 AM
Thanks Tom - I think you finally have me on the right track for understanding this program better. It's sort of a paradigm shift after using TMG for years.
#4
Posted 07 June 2020 - 05:52 PM
This issue of fields that do nothing has been a source of frustration for me. Under the Adoption fact, the "Parents" field also seems to do nothing. These extraneous fields are misleading and give one the impression that RM7 does something that it does not.
I still haven't found a good way of dealing with legal name changes, whatever the reason. Sure would be nice if RM8 fixed this.
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