I’m torn about how to go about this. My grandmother was adopted and didn’t connect with her bio mother until well after she was raised. I initially have the adoptive family and the bio family with the adoption labeled.

But at first glance at the tree it looks like my bio g.grandpa was in a relationship with my grandmas adoptive mother and you can’t see the bio family’s unless you go into my ggpa’s tree. So unless you know to look for an adoption when my grandmas hints show up for others they may miss the adoption label.

I’m thinking about switching the primary parent on my main tree so the relationship between her bio parents is more obvious and then move adoptive mother as an alternate parent.

The other thing is that my grandma is still living and she wants the family she knows represented in the tree. Because that’s the history she was raised with and those are the people she recognizes as her family even if a lot of them don’t recognize her as family since her adopted mother died.

Another thing is, I never met her adopted family but I grew up knowing the bio family very well so it’s not like they’re strangers to me so it feels odd to have them buried in the tree if that makes any sense.

My thought is to keep her adopted mother on the tree but clear out the detailed tree for the adopted family and make her bio mother the primary parent that shows on the main tree and make a separate more detailed tree for the adopted family. That way it’s a bit less messy and layered.

Maybe I’m just overthinking it.