<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18975"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>Mary,</DIV> <DIV>   This is an interesting question. I will be interested in what others have to say. I only have one instance in my direct line that I am aware of. I use Brother's Keeper to record my genealogy. Brother's Keeper allows for me to enter additional names that a person is know by. One of the choices is 'Adopted Name'. So, in my case I entered his surname the same as his biological father and then entered his step father's surname under 'Adopted Name'. </DIV> <DIV>   Wondering if this is how others would resolve this. Or if there are other solutions that could be used?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Dave Sloan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Marcia Sloan BGS<BR>Grandkids Ancestors LLC<BR>Specializing in East central IN, West central Ohio, Quaker Records, and Brethren Records.<BR>"The world is my country, and my religion is to do right" David Hoover 1781-1866 </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/13/2010 2:21:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mswanson4@charter.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I'm interested in the list readers' thoughts concerning the following.  A <BR>husband and wife have two children.  The marriage ends in divorce...the <BR>mother remarries and the ex-husband gives up all rights to his two children. <BR>The two children are then known by their adoptive father's surname.  All <BR>family members know the biological and adoptive father's.  The original <BR>husband would be noted, of course, as the woman's first husband and <BR>biological father of the two children.  But should the children be entered <BR>only under their adopted surname or should the biological surname be <BR>included in parenthesis along with the adopted surname?  Or, is there <BR>another way of entering this situation in a genealogy?<BR>Thanks, Mary <BR><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>