Even though a profile has unknown biological parents (explicit pair), the adoptive parent relationships are used to calculate blood-related family and ancestors.
In this example: http://www.geni.com/people/Sydney-J-Rosenfeld-Steiner-Mikhail-Strabo/6000000036998021632 , the adoptive parents were added to Geni prior to adding the (unknown) biological parents.
This also affects reporting of (text describing) adoptive siblings as brothers & half-brothers, when there is no biological connection.
Thanks, Dan, but your analysis is not quite correct. Sydney J. Rosenfeld Steiner DOES have known parents. They are Irene Gross Rosenfeld and N. N. Rosenfeld. (He was not illegitimate; his father died when he was young and we simply have not found the Hungarian birth, marriage, or death certificates of his father. Sydney was bon in the USA. Meanwhile, Geza Stinger, who was married in Hungary, came to America with his bride they had two children, also born in America. One was almost the same age as Sydney, Geza's wife (first name also not known) died. At that point, Sydney was living with his mother Irene Gross Rosenfeld and grandmother Annie Gross, while Geza, a widower, was living with his two songs, Charles B. and George Steiner. Then Irene and Geza married. Sydney added the last name Steiner but kept his original surname Rosenfeld as a middle name. Irene took the surname Steiner and adopted Geza's two boys, while Geza adopted Sydney. Then Geza died (almost immediately, strange to say) and in the next Federal census, Irene was listed as their mother, not as heir step-mother, although she was not their biological parent. The Steiner brothers grew up and left home, and Sydney stayed with his biological and his grandmother Annie, off and on, for the rest of their lives.
If the software can not handle this adoption situation, i shall ask for a conventional step-parent relationship to be shown, and i will explain the two-way adoptions in the comments field. That would be preferable to the mess we have now1
Thanks for any help!
Aaaach, sorry for all the typos -- Stinger = Steiner.
Thank you for the clarification of the ACTUAL of that particular profile (which may no longer be a helpful example. Earlier comments in a Discussion were confusing.
However, the fact remains that when a biological parent pair *with no ancestors* are added after an existing parent pair is changed to be adoptive parents (with numerous ancestors), the profile is still reported to have multiple blood relatives and ancestors -- when it should show only two ancestors and not a whole lot of blood relatives.
My profile can be another example of this bug. I see foster-parents (host-parents) and their whole families in my blood relatives.
I do appreciate the fact that some special category is probably needed for them, but they're clearly not 'blood' relatives by definition.
Applies to the "Shortest blood relationship" feature as well.