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Well, I've been expecting this one, and it finally happened. The dreaded "family tree" project in school.
(this is more of a vent/rant than a question)
Did any other adoptees hate this project as much as I did?
My son (who is adopted) needs to make a family tree that goes back five generations for his class project. He did ask how to handle adoptions in the family, and was told that he needed to fill out both biological and adoptive roots, wherever possible.
SO.. we started to plot out his tree.... and rapidly switched to the "rings" style tree to save space... and even so, there are 290 spaces at the great great grandparent level!
Thank God for my birth mom who is a genealogist, and was able to hand him her facts on a platter!
I remember, though, failing this project when I was his age. 50 % of my tree was blank.
Any suggestions for how to make this better/ easier for the kids coming up now who are adopted?
My son put anyone he considered to be part of his extended family onto his tree. Uncle Mark and Uncle Jim- gay lovers who were his god parents. Princess Diana whom he adored. Anyone and everybody and we just dropped them in where ever it made the most sense. I told the teacher that this was his family - and the people he loved. And reluctantly she agreed. He got an A.