How do adoption records work in Ancestris?

[mcgrew]

I'm currently running Ancestris 12.0.12685 on a Mac. I've been adding to my geneology in Ancestris, based on hardcopy family records.

I'm trying to figure out how adoption records work in Ancestris. Do they connect a child with a second parent? I couldn't figure out how to use an adoption record to connect an adoptive parent to an adopted child, or vice versa.

Here is the situation:
G (father) and A (mother) had E (daughter). A couple years later, A (mother) married B (adoptive father), who adopted E (adopted daughter).

As of now, I have a family record for A and G and their daughter E, and another family record for A and B. But I can't figure out how to show that B adopted E.

Can Ancestris do this?


While we're at it, what about "simple" adoptions, where parents adopt an orphan. Is there a way to show that the parents adopted the child, say an adoption record? And maybe a birth record showing the child's birthday, but not showing the birth parents (who are anonymous)?

TIA

[Zurga]

Ancestris is able to maintain information about adoption, but the way is complex due to the complex definition in the GEDCOM specifications.
Ancestris is based on the GEDCOM specification and display data following the GEDCOM logic.
So you have to use the GEDCOM editor to correctly fill the adoption.
Add a link with the adopting family (tag FAMC), add below this tag a PEDI tag to define the type of link (typically "adoption").
Then you can define specifically the adoption event with a ADOP tag and define below which is the individual or the couple to adopt.

Not a simple way to manage this case, we know that.

Zurga