Question

How do I add a stepchild to a married couple?

Answer 1

You can only add a child to a parent

Comments

Thanks!

Answer 2

Use links in the biographies of the adoptee and the adopters.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Adoptions_and_Multiple_Parents

Comments

Sue didn’t say adopted, just step-child

Answer 3

Say, the child is a biological child of the father, so the mother is the stepmother: add the child to the father only.

Say, the child is a biological child of the mother, and the father is the stepfather: add the child to the mother only.

Comments

Doesn't that make the child look illegitimate?  It's too bad there isn't a way to make all the children they were raising appear together, under their children,  even though some of them are steps of one parent or the other.  I can explain in the bio, or notes, but even if it included "step" designation, it would just give a clearer picture without having to compare children lists on each parent.

Well, if wishes were horses, even beggars could ride, right?  Thanks for answering, though.

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Doesn't that make the child look illegitimate?

commented by Sue Knight

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No.  There isn't even a hint of illegitimacy just because a child has a step-parent.  It just says that one parent is non-biological.  This is exactly the sort of thing that should be explained in the biography - for all three parties.

My grandmother had a step-mother.  She never lived in the same household growing up, but her younger sister did.  (Grandma married a couple of months before her father's second marriage.)

My grandfather also had three half-siblings and a step-mother, and would have grown up in the same household as he was just 11 when his mother died and his father married for the second time.

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'Children lists' on each parents will say [half] so you can see which parent belongs to which child.

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I don't want to impose; I'm brand new here, so if there is someone /somewhere else I should ask this question, just tell me where to go.

I added Anna Maddox Garland (maddox-2978) to her parents Reuben Maddox and Louisa Moore.  Louisa then married Joel Maddox (maddox-584).  Anna does not appear on his childlren list (unless I'm looking at the wrong thing?) and she is not listed as a " half."   

So what do I have to do to make her appear as a step?  

Step by step, please?  I don't think I'm following what you're saying.

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what I see --  

Daughter

of Reuben Libby Maddox and Louisa b (Moore) Maddox

Sister of Reuben Libby Maddox [half], Arthur Munroe Maddox [half], Lenora H. Maddox [half], Henrietta B. Maddox [half], Almira A. Maddox [half] and Apphia P. (Maddox) Look [half]

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Look at Anna's profile.  See where she is named as 'sister of' and all her siblings are marked as [half]?

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Sue -- if what you want is to HAVE a link to the stepfather / stepchild, I would do it this way (using the uncle/stepfather's bio for the example) :

He married his brother Reuben's widow, Louisa B. (Moore) Maddox on 5 June 1845 in Jonesboro, Maine,(source) thereafter raising his niece [[Maddox-2978|Annie]] as one of his own children.

Then do similarly on her profile, but linking to his WT ID#.

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Thanks. I do see that.  My hope was to get her as a stepdaughter in Joel's profile, but I guess that can't be done.