In order to add another set of parents to a person on your online family tree, follow the steps below:
1. Click on the person to whom you want to add the parents. On the left-side panel, click on 'More'.
2. Then, select 'Manage parents'.
3. A window will pop up in the middle of your screen where you can choose whether you want to add adoptive or foster parents:
Note:
If there is only one adoptive parent, or only one parent’s name is known, you can add the one parent and leave the other card empty. Click on each card to enter the names of the father and mother, and then click “Done.”
4. Click 'Done' to finish.
The newly added parents will be indicated by a "+1" gray circle indication. Hovering over the +1 indication, shows a tooltip explaining what this means.
Clicking the (+1) or (+2) indicators will open the Manage Parents window.
Changing the type of parents
You can easily change the type of each set of parents, in case you need to correct whether the parents you added are biological, adoptive, or foster:
1. Open again the 'Manage parents' window as shown above.
2. Click on the arrow pointing down on the side of either "Biological parents", "Adoptive parents" or "Foster parents", and select the correct one for that specific pair of parents:
3. Click 'Done' to finish.
Note:
If the individual has more than one set of parents, once the type of parents is changed and there is already an existing set of parents with this type, these parents' type will change since there can be at most one set of parents of this type.
You can also decide which set of parents will be shown in the tree, by clicking on 'Show in tree'.
The individual's parent are marked as adoptive in the tree with the dashed line that connects the child to the parents.
While “Show in tree” enables you to visualize adoptive and/or foster parents in the family tree, it does not change the default display of the tree. Biological parents, if they are known, are displayed by default; otherwise, adoptive, and finally, foster parents. To change the default display to show the adoptive parents, click on the cogwheel icon to open the Settings panel.
Under “Other options,” click the checkbox that says, “Display adoptive parents by default.”
Connecting to an existing person in the tree
Sometimes an adoptive or foster parent already exists in the family tree. For example, if Jonathan’s mother died when he was young and his father remarried, his stepmother would appear connected to his father in the family tree. If the stepmother adopted Jonathan, rather than add her as a duplicate in the family tree, she can be listed as the adoptive mother. To do this, open the left hand panel and click on the three dots icon. Then, select “Connect to an existing person.”
When you select “Connect to a parent,” you’ll see an automatic notice if there’s already an existing set of parents listed in the tree.
To add Jonathan’s adoptive parent, simply start typing the parent’s name and select it from the dropdown. Then click OK.