How do I change my family Wikitree ?

Question

yDNA shows my posted GGGF Daniel Brown (1805-1858), a black man, is not the father of my GGF Daniel (1856-1948), a white man.  The 1855 MA census for New Ashford MA shows the composure of the family involving the senior black Daniel Brown and his live-in white woman, all then living in Mount Washington MA, is complicated.  He is listed as black and has with him 3 black children from another on-going legal marriage back in NY State.  The live-in white woman in that Census, claiming to be Mrs. Maria Brown, appears via Dutch Reformed Church records in Albany NY to be one Elizabeth/Mary/Maria Chatter a/f/a Cater.  She resided with the senior Daniel Brown between 1850 and his death there in 1858 .  Beginning 1852 they jointly introduce three recorded children into the home, variously shown as white, mulatto and black,  Without a birth record my GGF Daniel (1856-1948) falls in the middle of those listed.  At the senior Daniel;s 1858 death and she with her five children including my GGF were placed in the Columbia County Poor House in Ghent NY in December 1858.  So my GGF may have come from her family in an informal guardianship or from a completely unrelated family.

Answer 1

One suggestion is to use the Adoption Template

I know there has been discussion within the WikiTreer's in charge about having other types of templates for Non parental events, but for right now, this is the best solution I have found for my family members that were raised by other families who were not their biological family, I have found this template helps keep parenting units connected.  

The template allows you to link to the parents that raised him via the template without linking them as his actual parents and leaves room for his actual parents to be added if/when they are determined.

Also you will want to add a research note and information in his biography explaining what you have found about his family connections so others don't add his non-biological parents back to his profile based on the census records.

I hope this helps.  It isn't a perfect solution, but it gives you an option that I have found helpful with the non-parental events in my family.

Here is how I used it on my grandmother's profile  Gertrude (Brumbaugh) Tucker