Family Tree Projects for School - Have you been asked?

I developed an adoptee's family tree. (I actually have a bunch of posters) It shows the birthfamily as the roots and the adoptive family as the branches. I have also done a lot of work with genograms.

Brenda; take pictures of said posters! DO IT. :)

I have the family tree branched out and soon after J's placement, I added L&B to it. It is here if they ever ask for it. From my research I was able to come up with 2 relatives, distant-very distant, who were adopted.

Brenda I would love to see the family tree you have developed. I have alot of experience doing genograms as well and I think they are a much more effective way to show families and emotional connections than a family tree is. But then again the purpose of a family tree is to trace blood lines.

In Nick's baby book, I simply listed the Munchkin as a sibling in his family tree. It took me awhile to decide if that was the right thing to do considering others read his baby book but I finally decided that, yes, it was right for our family.

I was a Cub Master for Cub Scouts for 5 years. One of the requirements is that the boys do family trees. I had a situation where I had a boy in my group named Brandon. He was Native American, and in foster care with a caucasion family. This family was going through the process of terminating the bio-parents rights so they could adopt not only him, but 2 siblings as well. Being Native American, the foster parents, K & B, were battling with the Tribe. I don't know much about how it all works, but apparently the Tribe can block the adoption if they do not approve. Anyway, I called K and told her we were going to do a family tree. I told her that it didn't matter to me if she used her family information for this project, since she was going to adopt. K then did the neatest thing: she contacted the Tribe and explained what was going on. Then she worked with the Tribe to make a "first family" and "forever family" dual tree. That way, Brandon would always know his first relatives and his new relatives. This helped Brandon understand how all of the new family fit together: ie, "new" great aunt is like "original" great aunt, etc. The Tribe then decided that since K contacted them wanting info for Brandon, and that K wanted to keep his Native American side of his family in his life, that K & B would be excellent parents...they released all 3 children to be adopted. Their adoption was finalized last December. I'm sorry this was so long, but I think it's such a neat way for foster/adoptive/birth relatives to work together for the good of the child. Being adopted myself, I always HATED the whole family tree assignments in school.

Wow - Amy, thank you for sharing.

Hmm, the dual tree is iiiiiiinteresting. I have a spliced apple/crab apple in my front yard. (Can you see my mind working right now?)