Hi, I have following situation - the person was adopted from birth mother by birth father and his wife. So she has one father (who is a birth father) and two mothers. One birth mother (who played the role of surrogate) and one adoptive mother. My question is - how to set this up correctly. I woul…

I will create two families in which the child will participate. The first consists of the biological parents as an unmarried family and the relationships between the child and the parents: father, surrogate mother. The second consists of the two final parents: father and adoptive mother.

but child can’t have more than 2 parents … I don’t know how to set it up. how to link the child to both families ?

A child can have as many parents as you want in Gramps. Just add it in two or more families. Just order them properly to see them in that order innreports, gedcom, …

There are other threads discussing how to record similar situations for the data. But the diagrams of secondary families is spotty. [image] How would you go about recording the following (IVF situation) in Gramps? Help I’m interested in finding out how others …

Okay … I’ve added her to both families, but this is a bit strange, because “birth” family never existed … birth father just had sex with birth mother once and then adopted the child with his wife … But here in Gramps the family with birth mother looks the same or even more important than the the o…

Families is only the word/concept used by Mormons in the (conservative) gedcom standard. I remember a discussion about that on this Dicourse ( @emyoulation ?). Gramps/Gedcom doesn’t support three members families (one man and two women) so you have to create two families using the good relationships…

The Surrogacy is important. You can add that as a relationship type for the family. But a event in the family to clarify the variant of surrogacy is helpful. The traditional surrogacy is where one (or both) parent(s) were infertile. So fertile stand-in(s) were selected for a natural conception. M…

To be honest, I don’t really care how it is “booked” in the DB, but on the family views/trees it looks very bad - and that’s the problem for me.

You ask for “how to set this up correctly. I would like to have both mothers mentioned in the tree” not how to make it look like you want it (what is it anyway?)

In graphview, you should have something like: [adopt1] The dotted link between the child and the adoptive parents means that he or she was adopted.

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emyoulation May 2, 2025, 9:25am 5

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