Posted on 12/08/2019 12:20:14 PM PST by sodpoodle
Last year, at the age of 71, I discovered through an Ancestry.com DNA test that my biological father was a Mr. D. T. Trotta, who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1980 when I was 33. The secret was never revealed to me either by him or by my mother.
She was determined to have a family, but after seven years of marriage to her first husband, she had three miscarriages and no children. I am curious if, after 39 years, there is any chance of recovering an inheritance as a biological heir.
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We discovered a first cousin that nobody even knew about until 2 years ago. Apparently my uncle (now deceased) impregnated a woman during the war and never knew about the child. The mother was married and ended up selling the baby, as well as 2 of her other kids, for drug money. My newfound cousin is now in her 70s and her kids bought the Ancestry DNA kit for her 2 years ago so she could find her biological family.
I don’t believe her mother was married to him when she was born. They can’t find a birth certificate for her with that name. She was born in Buffalo, New York. My mother was born in Picton, Ontario, Canada in 1920. Her parents were married at the time (marriage certificate verifies), but divorced or split (no official paperwork found on that) when she was very small, and she never knew her father. My mother was never able to get a birth certificate from Canada. They could find no record of her birth. And I’ve never been able to locate a death date or place of burial for my grandfather...my mother’s father. He’s was supposed to be a logger, and at one time lived in Tweed, Canada. I wrote Ottawa to see if they had military papers on him, but they didn’t. I found him as a young boy on the Canadian 1890 census, but after the record of his marriage to my grandmother, he disappeared. I never knew any of my grandparents. They were all gone before I was born in 1947.
I was at the LDS library when the librarians were laughing over a submission of a guy’s lineage back to Adam and Eve.
My relatives on Mother’s side discovered that thru the Markle bloodline we’re related to Meghan Markle, wife of Prince Harry, and therefore, to little Archie, their son. Something like 5th cousins, 7 times removed, or some such. This connection, plus $1.50 will get me a medium coffee at the local Sheetz Quikstop. I’m having palpitations!/S
Hey me too. Maybe we are related and can split the inheritance. The interest alone should be worth millions.
Even went to her home town. Found her high school records but no BC. We know there are relatives out there but his dad never took him to see them so we have no idea who they are.
Some of the Ancestry commercials made me ROFLMAO. Like the guy who all his life “KNEW” he had German roots, including wearing leiderhosen, etc; only to be told by Ancestry that he’s actually Scottish, so he switched to kilts and a bagpipe. Imagine the hillarity at Ancestry as the employees cook up BS stories to tell gullible clients. Barnum was spot on; or as we used to say in the machine shop, “dead nuts”.
Well your lucky day depends on whether you are a Republican or a democRat and if the judge is a democRat and your biological dad was a Republican.
Hope that helps? Good luck !
Then there’s MY tree, which is full of poor Irish Catholic peasants who have scattered to the four corners of the world. Since they were pretty much illiterate, it’s been a real picnic trying to fill in my family’s history.
Ancestry is a good starting point but so many trees are full of errors — like a 2-year-old giving birth or a woman who is 55 is listed as the mother of so and so. Therefore, any info found needs to be double checked. I have about 225 close matches (1st through 4th cousins) but hubby has over 1000!
D.T.Trotta’s son
Spent it all on
Hookers and Cocaine!
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Good Luck with Your
Needed Hip Replacement.
I think ancestry.com is only part true with results. it’s a business after all, they just want more and more people to pay them money, so they make customers happy or intrigued with results so they tell more people and the money keeps flowing in. Like gambling in a way - you get addicted.
it would also depend upon whether the estate reached final settlement and was closed out ... generally, after that, it’s a totally done deal, because the whole point of settling an estate is to allow time for all interested parties to put in their claims, including the taxman, creditors and all others ... after the estate is closed, it ceases to exist as an entity, so i’d think it would be impossible to put in a claim after the estate closed out ...
LOL! You win......
I had a great-aunt who married a silversmith in Canada in 1920, and they moved to Covington, Ky. not long after. He died in the early 30's, and is buried in a cemetery there. It was a double plot, but my great-aunt, who would be long dead by now, was never buried there. The last trace of her was from a city directory in the 50's that said she worked for Western Union in Cincinnati. I wrote them to see if they had any record of her, but they found nothing. Either she went back to Canada, or she remarried at some point, but she disappeared too.
My wife says I self-identify as royalty. This is the only thing we agree that she is correct on.
Aside from being addressed as “your highness”, please ping me if you get an answer on how we claim royal inheritances!
Your family sounds like mine. My father was born in Holland in 1904, and his side of the family is full of farmers mostly. Their records are slim to none. My mother’s side goes back to the 1200-1300’s. She always said we had no relatives. My DNA shows 35% Germanic Empire, which is something she certainly never knew. And her side has all the famous people: Peter Minuet, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kings of England, Knights, and other aristocrats like the Grenville’s, de Spencers, and others, Barons of Germany/Prussia, etc. Sir Walter Raleigh is supposed to be a great-uncle of mine. I’m only doing the great-grandparents in each line, and I take it all with a grain of salt as none of it can be proven. About the only one I haven’t been connected to yet is Pocahontas...the real one.
How did Ancestry.com determine this? I doubt the individual used Ancestry so he’d be in the genetic database.
Seems like an invasion of privacy to reveal someone’s secrets like that.
To the person asking the question: If he died with a ton of debt, would you feel personally obligated to pay it off? That’s your answer.
“Not so. In many states married women are entitled to specified fractions of their husbands’ estates.”
Completely unrelated.
I’m looking for my reparations from Egyptian slavery.
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