Very touching, Lem and also very personal for some I'm sure. I can relate from a distance.
My maternal grandfather left his family in the 1940's. Years later, there was a reunion on a farm west of Madison which I attended. I must have been eight or so. That was the first and last time I saw him. There was a bond there between him and my mother which I observed as children are wont to do. I cannot describe it in any more detail than I did back here: link
All ancestry sites (if you allow them to) will post your name (or whatever you use for a name) and ethic background, with a pretty close guess at where they are in your ancestry background. For example: 2nd or 3rd cousin, 5th to 8th cousin...
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Very touching, Lem and also very personal for some I'm sure. I can relate from a distance.
My maternal grandfather left his family in the 1940's. Years later, there was a reunion on a farm west of Madison which I attended. I must have been eight or so. That was the first and last time I saw him. There was a bond there between him and my mother which I observed as children are wont to do. I cannot describe it in any more detail than I did back here: link
I'm presently helping my 5th cousin try and find her birth father. We've both had our DNA tested on AncestryDNA.com. That's how we met.
She was adopted when she was an infant. About 8 years ago, she found her birth mother.
We both just took another DNA test, this time with 23andMe.
Whatever it takes to find her father, I'm in.
How does that work, Allen? Do you find DNA fingerprints of other curious people and then trace back to those still hiding out?
Spit, chick, spit in test tube.
Then...
All ancestry sites (if you allow them to) will post your name (or whatever you use for a name) and ethic background, with a pretty close guess at where they are in your ancestry background. For example: 2nd or 3rd cousin, 5th to 8th cousin...
Then, you create a family tree. Using known living relatives, you put the pieces together like a puzzle.
The power of forgiveness.
Good luck on your search AllenS
She's a hospice nurse.
Hospice nurses are angels.
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