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Adoption Pedigree

Adoption is shown with dashed descent lines and square brackets around the adopted person. A child adopted out of one family and into another appears in both families: dashed line from the birth parents and bracketed lines from the adoptive parents. This example shows both conventions in a single editable chart.

Birth fatherBirth motherAdopted childAdoptive fatherAdoptive motherBiological child

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