[franksolich]

I hope this is of interest.

[franksolich]

Ping for the list.

[madison10]

It’s of great interest, but darn it, where’s the rest of the story? :)

[PROTESTBYPROXY]

Several years ago I decided to do my family history, I went to Ancestors.com. I typed in my great grandfather’s name and up popped 400 years of research by a second cousin. To my amazement all I had to do was read.

[ColdOne]

I hope this is of interest. Yes it is.

[Sherman Logan]

The genealogist verified that my grandfather and his younger half-sister had been born illegitimate, and had in fact been legally adopted by their maternal grandparents

This was surprisingly common back in the day, though often kept quiet enough nobody outside the family knew about it.

I know of one such episode in my own family and at least two in the wife's.

Illegitimacy de facto was much more common back then than illegitimacy de jure.

[real saxophonist]

I was adopted. My parents' names are on the birth certificate. That's how it was done then. Adopted AT BIRTH.

So I don't know my true blood ancestry, but that of the only family I know is interesting enough.

I have NO desire to go on Oprah and look up my biological 'parents'.

[mountainlion]

You can use Ancestry.com for free for two weeks.

[Rusty0604]

This is very interesting. Years ago I found a distant cousin of my father’s on ancestory.com. He supplied me with a complete report on my grandmother’s paternal family back to the 1700s. My father (now passed) and my aunt were elated to revieve copies of this. In fact they remember this distant cousin’s family coming to visit when they were young.

I didn’t have much luck finding much on my mother’s side but haven’t looked lately.She had told me that William F. Buckey was a second cousin to my grandmother. I need to research the Buckleys sometime(my grandmother’s maiden name).

[WVNan]

I started researching my husband's family and found that someone had already done a lot of the work. Then one of his cousins furnished the rest of it. We now have every family member going back to 1625 in Donegal, Ireland. There was a son in every generation to pass the family name down. Large families too.

My family, however, I've never found anything beyond my great grandparents. They are Scots, so needless to say I refuse to pay Ancestor.com for the use of their not so good research. :o)

[AuntB]

This is what research of my family led to.

http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/

[Ditter]

Thanks frank, I enjoyed your history. I think I need to find a willing Mormon, folks who travel across the country in a wagon every other generation, don’t leave many tracks. They leave tracks in the mud but not in the court house records.

[Ptarmigan]

What country are your ancestors from originally? Cool stuff.

[jongaltsr]

grand parents were often forced to legally adopt their own grandchildren.

Often the distinction between grandparents and great grandparents was not recognized. My own parents often said grand parents when they actually were talking about their great grandparents. I have heard many people make the same distinction when talking about those that were elderly. The number of Grand in Grandparents was not distinguished.