How to input adoptive-biological parents?

You have a small adopted child but you know the biological family? One of your persons was taken in by a family that is not his biological family? You have a homosexual couple in your genealogy and want to also put the biological parent(s)?

You have to ask yourself a question: what do I want to do? Heredis follows a simple biological principle: biologically, we all have a father and a mother. But in reality, we can have adoptive parents, 2 fathers or 2 mothers. So, depending on what you want to do, you have several possibilities.

You want to do the genealogy of the biological family AND the adoptive family

It is better to have 2 files. In one of the files, associate the adopted child with his or her biological parents. Click add father and add mother and enter the biological parents. Then add the adoptive parents as sundry links.

In another file, associate the adopted child with his or her adoptive parents. Click add father and add mother and enter adoptive parents. Then add the adoptive parents as sundry links.

Advantages: you will be able to edit books and trees with adoptive and biological branches but in several documents.

Disadvantages: you will have 2 files to manage, be careful not to make a mistake. In addition, you will not see, if in the ancestry there are implexes (common ancestors between the adoptive and biological branch).

See also Create a new genealogy, Add parents, Add sundry links

You want to do the genealogy of the adoptive OR biological family

In this case, you can have a single file in which you will choose which parents you want to appear in the immediate family screen of Heredis.

Add the biological or adoptive father and mother and do the genealogical research to do the ancestry.

You can mention parents not present as father or mother as sundry links, but won’t do the research of their ancestors. Click the Syundry tab and add the adoptive or biological father, do the same for the mother.

See also Add Parents, Add Sundry Links