Adopted Father

Question

Father was adoped and is married with children. What would the children's LNAB be in order to match DNA?

Answer 1

If your question is about what to enter on their WikiTree profiles, DNA doesn’t matter. You enter the names that they were given at birth.

Answer 2

On WikiTree and other sites, the DNA will follow the relationships, the last name is not part of the process.   It is just the connections.

Answer 3

I'm confused.  How can they connect to the tree if the LNAB is an adopted name?  I know I would put the LNAB for the father than his current name, but for the Childen is my question.

Comments

The guidance on Adoption says that the parents displayed on Gilbert’s profile should be his biological parents, but you should mention his adoptive parents in his biography: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Adoptions_and_Multiple_Parents

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The exception is where the biological parents are not known, in which case you can attach them and mark the relationship as non-biological.

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What about Gilbert's Children would be my question.  I understand the process of Gilbert himself.

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You just add them as children of Gilbert. It doesn’t matter if their last names at birth are different to his.

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Thank you