Add a Child When Parents Are From Different Bloodlines

You and your spouse each have your own family recorded in MyBloodlines, separately. Now you have a child, and the child belongs to both sides. Joining the two bloodlines takes three steps and about a minute of work — you add your child, point the other parent at your spouse’s profile ID, and your spouse’s side accepts.

Step 1: Add your child

From your own profile, add your child the same way you’d add any other person on your side. Nothing special yet — this is ordinary recording within your own bloodline.

Step 2: Connect the other parent using their profile ID

While adding the child, you’ll be asked for the other parent. Instead of picking someone from your own bloodline, choose Connect to an External Person and enter your spouse’s profile ID.

A profile ID is a unique identifier for a profile, which your spouse can find on their own profile and share with you directly — like handing over a phone number. MyBloodlines has no public search and never suggests connections on its own, so this is how you point at someone you can’t already see.

That last part is the whole reason this step exists. When both people you want to connect are already within your reach, you just pick them both and the relationship is recorded on the spot — no request, no waiting. The external option is for when one of them is outside what you can see, which is exactly the case with your spouse’s family before the two sides are linked.

Step 3: Your spouse’s side accepts

Entering the ID sends a connection request to that profile. Anyone who has your spouse’s profile inside their permission boundary can accept it — your spouse, or a contributor on that side of the family.

Once accepted, that’s it. The two bloodlines are joined, and your child is the new generation where they meet.

Nothing is being merged or moved here. Everyone already sat in the same shared record; the two sides simply had no relationship linking them until now. Adding your child adds that link.

Does it matter which side starts?

No. People often ask whether the child should be added to the father’s bloodline first and the request sent to the mother, or the other way around. It makes no difference at all.

That’s because MyBloodlines has no groupings — no family accounts, no separate trees, nothing that one side could be “inside” and the other “outside” of. There are only individuals and the relationships between them. Whichever parent adds the child, the result is identical: one child with a parent link to each of you. More on that design in why MyBloodlines has no groups, only people.

What changes afterward

Your child now has a recorded parent link into each bloodline, and everything else follows from that automatically. Nobody needs to declare that you and your spouse are married — the shared child expresses it. Each side’s visibility expands to include the newly connected relatives on the other side, following the same rules that already governed each bloodline; nothing beyond that specific connection becomes visible. And your child, sitting where the two lines meet, can see down both of them.

The reason only parent-child links are ever recorded directly, with everything else derived, is covered in why MyBloodlines only records parent-child ties.

If you haven’t yet claimed your own profile, that’s the step that comes first — it’s covered in how to claim your profile and start recording.

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