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How do I change a relationship for a stepchild

Eugenia Lou Donohoe

September 07, 2016 22:53

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I started my family tree and added my husband and his son and our daughter, but it shows I am his biologiocal parent.  I added my stepsons mom, but now it's showing a conflict.  I need to be able to show my husband as his father along with his biological mother.

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  Jeff, Geni Curator September 08, 2016 13:26

  Eugenia, happy to help here.  Here are some instructions, but it's sort of a several step process.  The easiest way, which you could still do if you deleted his mother, would be to create the mother as a partner or spouse of your husband (you can later update this relationship to ex-wife or ex-partner.  Once she is listed as being connected to your husband, you can edit the child's relationship tab, where there is a pull down menu and you can change the parents from your husband and you to your husband and the biological mother.

  Right now, there is no relationship between the biological mother and your husband, so clicking to choose the correct parents gives a false choice of the biological mother and no husband or your husband and you.  So a second way to do this would be to move the biological mother's profile and drag it over your husband to create that relationship.  http://help.geni.com/entries/469824-How-can-I-show-more-than-one-relationship-between-the-same-two-people-  Then go through the process of resolving the conflict by clicking on the yellow triangle.

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  Jeff, Geni Curator September 08, 2016 13:27

  Let me know if you need help doing it.  I could do it for you, but wanted to give you the opportunity - helps you learn the software.

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  Natalie Moberg Larsen January 17, 2021 12:32

  Jeff i need help with this to. When i add my boyfriends ex-girlfriend, whom he has a child with, my stepdaughter, geni makes a new tree for them. i would like to have my stepdaughter on my tree, but how do i do that without geni making a new seperate tree. ?

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  Natalie Moberg Larsen January 17, 2021 12:44

  as you can see i have tried a few times now. :(

  

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  Alison Stroebel March 03, 2024 13:34

  I also have a problem in that it’s made my cousins step children of my aunt but they not they are biological. How do I change that?

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  Job Waterreus March 03, 2024 14:34

  From the relation tab of the children (you can change the parents to biological there)