You can add an adopted individual in the same way as any other, specifying the adoption information on the Details page of the individual datasheet.
If you check the box labelled Adopted, the button labelled Adoptive Family will be enabled, and clicking this button will display a list of families, from which you can make a selection. When the data is saved, the selected family will be recorded, and an adoption event will be added to the list of events. You can edit this event to add further information such as the date of adoption.
Specifying the adoptive family in this way does not add the individual to the family: when you view the family in the family datasheet, the adopted individual will not appear.
You can add the adopted individual to a family in the same way as any other individual, by finding the family in View mode, switching to Edit mode, selecting the individual in the list on the right hand side, and clicking Add as Child.
You can add an adopted individual to the adoptive family as well as to the biological family, but only after you have specified the adoptive family in the individual datasheet. Where an individual is linked to two families in this way, the biological family will be given precedence when charts are produced.
In order to delete the information that an individual is adopted, you must first remove the individual from the adoptive family.