... President [Hugh B.] Brown raised the question as an illustration as to what the situation would be where a woman was married to three husbands and there were three children each having different fathers. If they were all sealed to one man would the responsibility for [genealogy] research be through the blood line or through the sealing line. I said that if they are sealed for time and eternity, they will follow the sealing. I said that the same ruling should apply in all cases, legitimate or otherwise, that the person in question should act as though the adopted father was his real father.
[Source: David O. McKay diary, Jan. 14, 1964, as quoted in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
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