diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6365545..eebf7bc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## v0.9.2 - Unreleased
+
+* Add lenient support to Zone.add_record, allows populate from providers that
+  have allowed/created invalid data and situations where a sub-zone is being
+  extracted from a parent, but the records still exist in the remote provider.
+
 ## v0.9.1 - 2018-05-21 - Going backwards with setup.py
 
 ### NOTICE
diff --git a/octodns/zone.py b/octodns/zone.py
index e4dc859..916f81b 100644
--- a/octodns/zone.py
+++ b/octodns/zone.py
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ class Zone(object):
     def hostname_from_fqdn(self, fqdn):
         return self._name_re.sub('', fqdn)
 
-    def add_record(self, record, replace=False):
+    def add_record(self, record, replace=False, lenient=False):
         name = record.name
         last = name.split('.')[-1]
 
-        if last in self.sub_zones:
+        if not lenient and last in self.sub_zones:
             if name != last:
                 # it's a record for something under a sub-zone
                 raise SubzoneRecordException('Record {} is under a '
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ class Zone(object):
             raise DuplicateRecordException('Duplicate record {}, type {}'
                                            .format(record.fqdn,
                                                    record._type))
-        elif ((record._type == 'CNAME' and len(node) > 0) or
-              ('CNAME' in map(lambda r: r._type, node))):
+        elif not lenient and (((record._type == 'CNAME' and len(node) > 0) or
+                               ('CNAME' in map(lambda r: r._type, node)))):
             # We're adding a CNAME to existing records or adding to an existing
             # CNAME
             raise InvalidNodeException('Invalid state, CNAME at {} cannot '
diff --git a/tests/test_octodns_zone.py b/tests/test_octodns_zone.py
index e90f94c..b371590 100644
--- a/tests/test_octodns_zone.py
+++ b/tests/test_octodns_zone.py
@@ -242,12 +242,18 @@ class TestZone(TestCase):
         zone.add_record(a)
         with self.assertRaises(InvalidNodeException):
             zone.add_record(cname)
+        self.assertEquals(set([a]), zone.records)
+        zone.add_record(cname, lenient=True)
+        self.assertEquals(set([a, cname]), zone.records)
 
         # add a to cname
         zone = Zone('unit.tests.', [])
         zone.add_record(cname)
         with self.assertRaises(InvalidNodeException):
             zone.add_record(a)
+        self.assertEquals(set([cname]), zone.records)
+        zone.add_record(a, lenient=True)
+        self.assertEquals(set([a, cname]), zone.records)
 
     def test_excluded_records(self):
         zone_normal = Zone('unit.tests.', [])