I've just reminded myself of a problem I gave up on some time back. On one branch a girl child is listed as "adopted" in a census, and later is married from the family's home address, but her mother is not a family member, and there was no father listed on her birth certificate. There may be a genetic family connection, I suspect, as she later uses some family names when naming her own children. I ended up putting her in as a family member, but can't see an easy way to show that her natural mother was her mother, without making a hole in the tree. I could just "float" her as a sep. entry, but that seems to devalue her.... any ideas?