On our Curley line, can't find what happened to my Huge and Bridget Curley after the census of 1851. They were an irish catholic family so I figure there must be other siblings for their one son that we know of. I have never turned up anything and I am still searching to find out when and where Huge and Bridget died. On another note, I am adopted and was reunited with my birth family at 38, I am now 56. It was very healing and wonderful for me but I understand not everyone feels that way. I was raised as an only child, so it was great to find out I was one of seven children. I now have a sister that I am very close to and their are other people that look like me! My mothers life was not good and she was a horrible abusive mother, I was the lucky one. For me, I needed to know. deb in mi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dalle, Nancy, Civ, 126 CES, CEOR, 4878" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Finding Out About Siblings of Ancestors >A lot of times you may want to find out information about brothers and > sisters, and half brothers and sisters but other family members don't. > Remember to respect the other members while you are researching. > > My husband and his brothers were placed in Foster Care when he was 3 years > old. Their father had left their mother and remarried and has three more > boys. Their mother passed away. My husbands brothers have been in > contact > with their father, and have met their half brothers, my husband has not. > He > has no desire to meet these people, he says as far as he is concerned his > father died when he was 3. > > I am researching the family to help my brother-in-laws - but I don't > discuss > it with my husband and I don't tell him what I've found, because quite > frankly he doesn't care and I respect his right not to care. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cynthia Phillips [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Finding Out About Siblings of Ancestors > > and my mother and aunt were reluctant to talk about my father. But a half > brother 14 years younger than me found me last year and thru his mother > (my > stepmother) who is only 10 yrs older than me i have pictures of my father > and the 2 half brothers, fouond out he was married 4 times and had a > daughter with the last wife, found out how he died and that even tho he > never got in touch with me he carried my picture with him. > > We know where the half sister is but she won't talk to us neither will > her > mother. And this is the wife he was with when he died. So what's the > harm > after all these years. > > but still I know so much more than i did. I have court documents on the > marriages and divorces now. All because a half brother found me. > > cindy > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Betty <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have always had an interest in finding out about the siblings of an >> ancestor. It goes along with what was going on in the world - or in >> their town - when the ancestor was living. I don't need to find out >> everything about the sibling, but it would be nice to find out who they >> married and how many children they had. After all those children would > be >> my ancestor's nephews and nieces. >> >> And, my "wish" - as someone else said - is that the descendants of >> those nephews and nieces might have more information on my ancestor than >> I > do. >> >> And I'd like to mention half-siblings. My grandmother eloped at Age > 17, >> probably because she was pregnant. She lost that baby, and then a 2nd >> baby, and then had a daughter and 2 sons. The first husband and she >> divorced in 1935, and she was already pregnant with the man who would >> be her >> 2nd husband. She then had her 2nd daughter and another son. This >> aunt >> and uncle are only about 8-9 years older than I am. >> >> The reason I'm mentioning this is that this aunt knew her mother much >> more >> than I did. My father did not get along with his parents, so we >> didn't >> visit all that much. And, my aunt knew her mother's mother more than I >> did. So she can tell me lots of stories about her mother and >> grandmother, >> and I would never have heard them. >> >> Part of what I am saying is that there are more than 4-5 children in a >> family, and they are spread apart in ages, the younger children in >> the family knew the parents much longer than their oldest sibling - >> in some cases. >> >> >> Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) >> >> List Administrator >> >> >> (My aunt lost all 4 of her siblings during the 1990's. Her younger >> brother "dropped dead" at Age 60. He didn't like to go to doctors. > An >> autopsy showed he had undiagnosed heart disease, undiagnosed lung >> disease, >> and undiagnosed cancer at the time of his death. My aunt is >> relatively >> healthy.) >> >> (This is another case of "life-threatening diseases" coming down from >> the >> KIDDER / WILKINS ancestors near Calais, Maine. Or, as I was advised >> several years ago, my parents and their siblings inherited "weak >> immune systems" from their ancestors.) >> >> >> >> When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, >> I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the >> SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! 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