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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 544045" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I have a nephew who doesn't know my bro is not his bio dad. He was born to his mom during her brief first marriage, and biodad gave up his rights so as not to have to pay child support. Bro adopted him formally not too many years after he married his first wife. As far as I know, no one has told him the truth about bro. But it wouldn't surprise me if someone let it slip on purpose, say his mom after she and bro split up finally. I sort of hope someone has been kind enough to tell him the truth before it gets blurted out in an unkind way. Yet to discover it now would be painful, I'd imagine. Problem is that his mom, ummm "got around" so odds are the man listed as his biodad is probably not either. Heaven help any of the kids from that union should they have to have DNA tests done as none of them would match bro. (like I said, that wife got around a LOT from the moment she hit puberty) </p><p></p><p>I wouldn't take info on any genealogy site for granted as being the absolute truth. My eldest cousin "supposedly" did our entire family tree, wrote a book about how to do it correctly, taught classes on it. In short, made a great deal of money with the idea. He got in just as it was beginning to catch on. Only problem is, a vast majority of the information in our family tree is incorrect, except for his own immediate family (as far as I know, shoot he might have that wrong too). Yes, he interviewed everyone and collected the information. I know, as I provided the vast majority of that information....as when I had my basic photographic type memory it was all stored in my brain......on any family member that was immediate, and all those extended family members I was close to. I don't know what he did with said information, which was also backed up by the families themselves, but it certainly never made it into the family tree or his book (which used our family as an example). I've corrected his info provided on ancestry.com several times and someone continues to change it back to the incorrect data. ugh (or did way back when I last used it) </p><p></p><p>My advice on if you want to know for certain it's true, is do the research yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 544045, member: 84"] I have a nephew who doesn't know my bro is not his bio dad. He was born to his mom during her brief first marriage, and biodad gave up his rights so as not to have to pay child support. Bro adopted him formally not too many years after he married his first wife. As far as I know, no one has told him the truth about bro. But it wouldn't surprise me if someone let it slip on purpose, say his mom after she and bro split up finally. I sort of hope someone has been kind enough to tell him the truth before it gets blurted out in an unkind way. Yet to discover it now would be painful, I'd imagine. Problem is that his mom, ummm "got around" so odds are the man listed as his biodad is probably not either. Heaven help any of the kids from that union should they have to have DNA tests done as none of them would match bro. (like I said, that wife got around a LOT from the moment she hit puberty) I wouldn't take info on any genealogy site for granted as being the absolute truth. My eldest cousin "supposedly" did our entire family tree, wrote a book about how to do it correctly, taught classes on it. In short, made a great deal of money with the idea. He got in just as it was beginning to catch on. Only problem is, a vast majority of the information in our family tree is incorrect, except for his own immediate family (as far as I know, shoot he might have that wrong too). Yes, he interviewed everyone and collected the information. I know, as I provided the vast majority of that information....as when I had my basic photographic type memory it was all stored in my brain......on any family member that was immediate, and all those extended family members I was close to. I don't know what he did with said information, which was also backed up by the families themselves, but it certainly never made it into the family tree or his book (which used our family as an example). I've corrected his info provided on ancestry.com several times and someone continues to change it back to the incorrect data. ugh (or did way back when I last used it) My advice on if you want to know for certain it's true, is do the research yourself. [/QUOTE]
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