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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Wills are funny things.
And if there are trusts involved it can be even more complicated.
Louisiana is unique when it comes to inheritance law
It’s done by testing yourself and analyzing your matches. You take your highest matches with trees, reconstruct them using records in ancestry’s database, and looking for commonalities. It can be very painstaking, depending on how close your matches are and whether there are adequate record savailable. My search angel found my biological father with 4th cousin matches. I found my husband’s grandfather using social security death records and a 2nd cousin match. Then a match popped up, an adoptee looking for her bio parents. I was able to determine what family group her father was from.
You don’t have to test to be identified. It can be a match with a cousin you don’t even know.
“Louisiana is unique when it comes to inheritance law.”
The laws in Louisiana are based upon Napoleonic law.
Sorry to bust-up your party, but AncestryDNA found that my biological father was full blooded German descent, though I was brought up Cajun French. So these stories may seem odd, but due to the secrecy of man’s/woman’s nature, all too common.
I was adopted as an infant in the ‘50s. I discovered the identity of my birth mother and her family years ago, but had no information on my birth father. Last year, I took the DNA test at ancestry.com, and after about four months of research, was able to narrow down the identity of my birth father as a high school classmate of my BM. I also discovered a younger half-sister I never knew I had, and we have exchanged emails and hope to meet some day.
“Table for one, again, Your Highness?”
You might want to check the ethnicity results again. They recently had an update that was able to id native American. My husband’s results recently updated, showing his native American.
Thank you. I’ll tell my son they did some changes.
rwood
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