Please do not open up another discussion, I don't have Gerald Geiger's email and I just wanted to say thank you to him Gerald: I applaud you in the stand you took regarding your children I have 3 whom I said "I Do Accept you as my children" when I married their father. If I could not do this, I should not have married their father. They and their stories are included in my genealogy. My program allows me to show they are "step, adopted, etc.". However in real life, we never use the term "step". Their father, my husband, died on Nov 26. They were the most helpful children anyone could ask for when their father died. They continue to check on me even though they live great distances away and have treated me no different than before. How blessed I am - they will always be "my" children Wanda -----Original Message----- From: georgia-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:georgia-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Gerald Gieger Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:49 AM To: georgia@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] In name only I have read all these replies and opinions and it calls to mind a story told by my late wife, in regard to her "Cousins" and her Grandmother... It seems that her Grandmother made a point of introducing her natural grandchildren as her "Real Grandchildren" and the others as her "Adopted Grandchildren." While she could have meant no harm, those Adopted Grandchildren were cut to the heart by the segregation and favoritism which she exhibited... We have five natural children, one which we adopted at birth and another which we became guardians of when she was nine...When I stood in that courtroom before a Judge, I took an oath stating that I would accept and treat that baby as if he had been born by blood... and that I understood that he would share in my estate in a greater measure than my blood children in that he could NEVER be disinherited. I raised him, I nurtured him, I provided for him, and he IS my son just the same as the others, all of whom I love, equally and dearly. I did not have to take him, I CHOSE to take him. He has produced one grandson and I have one other grandson who is adopted, but they carry our family name, just the same. I molded them into the persons that they are. I am an officer of SRT, belong to NSSAR, and several other lineage organizations, and it hurts me that "blue-bloods" cannot condescend to create a special category that would allow admission of those lifelong children to membership, when most of them have a like situation within their own families, albeit it may have been hidden for many years...even some multiracial products of philandering grandparents. It amazes me how cold-hearted and aloof we become when we begin thinking we are somebody...I agree with Bonnie. Without HIM, none of us could be called the Children of God... > From: bfwgay@frontiernet.net> To: jonrhy@yahoo.com; georgia@rootsweb.com> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:31:13 -0500> Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] In name only> > This one is close to my heart. My child is adopted. I think any adopted > child should be in the family tree and notated as being adopted. They do > not share the same DNA line, however they share the same heartline. All > adoptees share the same inheritence of the parents as do the natural > children. It is more than in name only. God has only one Son, however by > being adopted in his family we stant to inherit just like his son. We also > carry his name (Christian). BG> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Rhymes" <jonrhy@yahoo.com>> To: <Georgia-l@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:03 PM> Subject: [GEORGIA] In name only> > > > Is an adopted child to be included in a family> > genealogy?> >> > He has not a drop of the family's blood line, yet he> > does have the family's name.> >> > How do you handle that?> >> >> > Regards,> > John> > New Orleans> >> > www.our-domain.net/home.html> >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > GEORGIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message> >> > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEORGIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Your smile counts. The more smiles you share, the more we donate. Join in. www.windowslive.com/smile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_oprsmilewlhmtagline ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEORGIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message