When my Aunt and I were doing our family geneology we found out a few things that surprised us.
We found:
a defrocked Nun, one of the first medical personel to contract and die of AIDS form getting accidently pricked with an infected patient's needle, a greedy & sadly selfish wife (who's tales are legend), a grandmother who divided the family because of her nastiness, a severe history of members dying very young, family members who became alcoholics and drug addicts, but we also found some wonderful people.
There is also the story of a child born to a mother married- but not to the father. She had the baby, kept it for 2 years (raised with the older half-siblings during that time), then gave him away to the father's family so her husband wouldn't divorce her.
So I was wondering- do any of you have such skeletons that you knew of or found?
i have too many skeletons with my living family; I don't need to search for more.
Quoting Rhiannon1980:
Not that I know of but my grandfather on my dads side was adopted and we only know the guys last name. So no real way to trace it.
Have something similar, father was adopted and I have no idea who his family is or was. So hubby and I joke that since his family knows their family tree back farther than that, and he is from a small town where he's related to almost everyone in some way, that I married him because I could be sure he wasn't my cousin and he married me to open the gene pool in his family farther! LOL
Quoting purpleducky:i have too many skeletons with my living family; I don't need to search for more.
No! I love that your so open about things!
But we both grew up not knowing anything about my grandfather's side because HIS mother was the bitch no one could stand and split the family!!
So we wanted to see if we could re-connect with any of them
Sadly she passed away a few years ago and I stopped the search because it wasn't the same doing it without her. But every so often I will do a little digging because I know she wanted to finish it. ;-)
Anyways, my mom did something similar with my family.
Quoting meowsrus:
Quoting purpleducky:i have too many skeletons with my living family; I don't need to search for more.
No! I love that your so open about things!
But we both grew up not knowing anything about my grandfather's side because HIS mother was the bitch no one could stand and split the family!!
So we wanted to see if we could re-connect with any of them
Sadly she passed away a few years ago and I stopped the search because it wasn't the same doing it without her. But every so often I will do a little digging because I know she wanted to finish it. ;-)
Quoting Mare1180:
I apparently have a great, great grandfather that abandoned his family and pregnant wife. I can't find anything about him though. That's about it lol
Oooh that is a good skeleton! There are many avenues to try to find out info, but it depends on where they lived. We have an extremely hard time finding any info past my great-grandparents (and them too really) because they were not born here and the town my great-grandfather's family is from -well, it was in a country that no longer exists, so we have no idea where to start looking!
That's the ugliest name everrrr!!!
- meowsrus
on Apr. 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM