Posted on 10/16/2019 7:09:14 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
They might find a particular marker or something that indicates you may have a predisposition or high likelihood of breast cancer or Alzheimer's.... What could go wrong?
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Absolutely. Six months ago a 1st cousin showed up. Good thing for my uncle that both him and his wife were deceased already or I’m sure his wife of 50 plus years would have taken things into her own hands!
You might be surprised. One of my friends who belongs to SAR is one of the most salt-of-the-earth former Marines you would ever want to meet. An all-around great guy who would give you the shirt off his back. He and his wife socialize online all around the country and sometimes in person with people they have met through the organization.
That’s awesome! And yes, I relate to that “gift from God” thing. Whichever one of us survives the other is going to have a hard time.
Oh what a sweet story. Thanks for sharing.
I know a caucasian-looking couple with two sons, both of whom DNA tested as 40% Italian despite the belief that only German and Irish genes would be found.
Best they could determine, the mother’s MOTHER (grandma) had a close “family friend” who was Italian, who was actually NAMED on the kids’ DNA tests because he had his DNA mapped through the same company. Then... ooops
My biggest fear is that I would find out that I am related to the Loon in this video
Just throw thousands of years old ‘institution’ over the side?
Oh, that’s right, it’s working out OK for throwing thousands years institution of marriage over the side.
Are you saying cuckoldry is an *institution*?
Hard to trace if he'd liked BOYS!
There’s always Mensa.
Buster; if it's caught in your trap; it's your varmint!
Huh.
Looks like you deliberately avoided thinking before you posted.
Raising children as your own, even though there may be questions should not be thrown overboard lightly.
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Right, because unfaithful women shouldn't face any consequences at all for their actions. Sorry. I forgot.
I was a member until I met a few other members. I didn’t renew.
I know several guys who made their newly discovered progeny jump through a lot of hoops. I knew I was busy with her mother at the right time and she looked and sounded just like my sisters; even my grandchildren have many of the same weird excentricities that I do.
I grew up about 20 miles North of Plymouth and our family had been in the area forever. My sister did our genealogy and we have 12 lines going back to the Mayflower. No straight male lines, all by marriage. The straight male line goes back to a man who showed up in 1630 in what’s now Boston. His grandson was the first to marry into the Pilgrim clan. The Church I lacked attendance in but was the family Church, was the second Church built by the Pilgrims. 1642 iirc. Still congregating to this day. The first Church, in Plymouth, is gone. Ours has remained autonomous. Most congregational churches joined big, liberal religion.
Yes, yes, yes, I’ve read all of the conspiracy theories, ET al, etc. But as an adoptee of the baby scoop era in a closed records state, this was my best bet to find my biological family. I found my bio mother through traditional search methods, bio father was proving tricky.
Long story short, I verified that I had indeed found my bio mother, and I found my bio father. All have accepted me totally.
Then I thought, maybe I can find my husband’s missing grandfather, or at least his descendants. Yep, eventually, they did show up, found out my MIL had half siblings in the same city she lived in back in the 50’s.
Then another close match showed up. Turned out she is an adoptee too. Because of an anomaly (2 brothers marrying 2 sisters,) I was able to pinpoint exactly who her grandparents were, and who her father was. She was able to meet him a year before he died.
Non adopted people have no idea how important this is for us.
I’m totally willing to trade whatever shenanigans may occur, just to find my biological family
I got the invite letter; researched how much it would cost me; decided that I was smarter than that.
Groucho was right.
I have a few of those. The most interesting was my Paternal grandparents. My Grandfather had two brothers who married two of the sisters of my Grandmother.
That skewed upwards the cM matches for those lines as they matched from both parents lines.
Since I already knew about the 3 siblings marrying 3 siblings it actually only confirmed their expected progeny's relationship levels.
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