Question

My Y-DNA surname is different than my birth name LAPE, how do I get it to show under the proper surname DOMINY?

Answer 1

Legally, your name is the one on your birth certificate (unless you've had it changed by court order, deed poll, or a similar mechanism) regardless of who you may have inherited your Y-chromosome from.

Comments

You can go by "Also Known as" as long as it is not for purpose of fraud.

Answer 2

Your Y-DNA info should propogate up your male lineage line regardless of surname.  So, for example, if you were given your mother's surname at birth because she wasn't married, as long as you link to your biological father on Wikitree, your Y-DNA info will propagate to him and his paternal ancestors and their applicable male descendants. On Wikitree, your info does not propagate to others of the same name who are not linked in your male lineage group.  Also, Wikitree only has the Haplogroup you entered, not your complete Y-DNA results, and does not do any searching for matching individuals.  That needs to be done on FamilyTreeDNA or ySearch or similar sites.

Answer 3

Many, like adoptees, would like a familial and a biological tree. DNA follows the biological. Familial tends to only represent the societal records of family and parentage as recorded and likely experienced.

Most genealogical databases allow multiple parents of an individual (biological, legal, religious, etc) but not all. Most that allow the multiples AND allow DNA to be specified will properly link the DNA through the biological parentage only.

When a database allows multiple parents, it often allows one to specify which parent should be the default view in a tree. This really helps in a common situation of a very young child with a decreased parent and the living parent immediately remarries. The step-parent is all they ever knew. Sometimes they use the step-fathers surname without any paperwork ever being filed with church or state. No matter what the birth record shows. This dual parentage can often not be recorded in records. Stricter record keeping has been the practice in America only the last ~100 years.

Stories and reasons for these early dual parentages before records are numerous; and not necessarily due to illicit affairs, unmarried mothers and the like. Neighbors taking in (war) orphans often happened without records. Even in church records that go much farther back then state ones.

Last I checked, Wikitree does not support multiple parents like most databases. So this dual parentage and resultant multiple tree views cannot be properly represented. They can only represent a single set of parents that is then assumed common for all puposes and interpretation.

Comments

Wanting your DNA attached to the proper people and also wanting to be attached to your adoptive family is the only time multiple profiles for a person are allowed: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Adoptions_and_Multiple_Parents

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Thank you Jamie. Interesting approaches taken for what can be sensitive topics within families. Thank you for the Use clarification in that link and the others available from there. Had not been aware of them.