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Children with only one parent.

Marlene Scott

August 08, 2011 21:40

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My aunt has a son, that is not my uncles. It's her only child, and was never adopted by my uncle. She was 16 when he was born and the father was never part of his life. But he's been in my family since he was a baby. Isn't there a way to add him as a child of just my aunt w/o having to provide a fathers name? If not there should be.

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  Bjørn P. Brox August 09, 2011 18:30

  Just add a temporary spouse of your aunt and add him as their son. Iif he is already added: Use the parents pulldown menu in his relationships tab to select the parent set with this unknown and your aunt. Then you can just delete this temporary spouse (or rename him to unknown or simply ask your aunt what his name is).

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  Breya Warnstaff February 04, 2012 18:31

  I too want to know how, because I adopted a child after my divorce and the new birth certificate only shows one parent - me. Geni keeps wanting to associate the child with an ex husband.

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  Dana Maxfield May 02, 2013 21:27

  My wife is not my daughter's mother. So I added the temp spouse as was suggested, and then deleted the temporary spouse. Now, on the page where I see my wife's entire family and myself, my daughter isn't displayed. You have to click on my name to get her name to show up, making it look like she isn't part of the family. How can this be fixed?

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  Dan Cornett May 29, 2013 14:17

  Dana:  That is something intrinsic to the way "Family Trees" are displayed.  That is, if you don't see the relationship, you won't see any children of the relationship.

  If, for example, you "focus" the Tree View on one of the children (any of them), you should see all the siblings and half-siblings ... because all of the parents' spouses will be shown. But the sets of grandparents shown *will* differ based on which of the 'half-siblings' are selected.

  Showing adopted relationships nicely is a long-outstanding Feature Request; that could help in these situations because you could then declare an adopted relationship to the other parent and thus show up when that parent is the 'focus'.

  Some folks *like* not seeing the half-siblings -- not all family 're-organizations' are amiable!