Chimera J. R. Camper > [Original Message] > From: Carrol Mick <carrol@allthroughtheages.com> > To: <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> > Date: 12/18/2008 10:05:46 AM > Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [GERMANNA] DNA study question > > Well I just watched something on tv about the dna of a mother not matching > her children. She was their biological mother but the tests kept coming up > that they were not her children. There is a term for it but I cannot think > of it right now. Her children were taken away from her until it could be > proven that they were her children. Sometimes this could happen. > Also when my relatives learned from me that their father and grandfather was > adopted I received about half good responses and half horrible responses. > to this day I have half of my cousins saying that I am wrong and won't > believe that my grandfather on my father's side was adopted. They would not > speak to me for years. I have the original adoption papers that not even > the court has, I have proven it, but they still say no. I have met the > grandchildren of my grandfather's sister and there are similarities and > such. One must take it one second and step at a time. Some will be > completely upset and others accepting. I grew up in a variety of households > never really knowing who my real family was, but my real family are all of > those blood related and not and those that raised me and those that never > knew me. > My older half brother absolutely is in denial about his birth father after > 40 years of searching because he doesn't want to believe. He is mad at me > for finding this out and won't speak to me about it. I figure the man that > he wants to be his biological father that was never around is not his father > and the father that is biological that was never around is not his father > but my father who raised him was his father. And all of the relatives that > want to get to know him are his relatives and those that don't want to be > bothered are not family. but he doesn't see it that way. > that is all I have to offer I hope it helps. > > Carrol Mick > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Suzanne Matson < > holtzclaw.research@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > How have various family groups dealt with the following scenario which > > happened in my husband's family? > > > > Y-DNA studies were done to see if various lines were related. One came > > back as completely unrelated. The parents of the person tested are living. > > He had grown up in his family thinking of course that he was a biological > > child of both parents. Needless to say, this person is devastated and the > > family is in real turmoil. > > > > I am not saying don't do DNA studies but I am asking how you would deal > > with this. > > > > As we work on our various Germanna lines, we may encounter the above > > situation at some point. > > > > Suzanne Collins Matson > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > Carrol Mick > Mick Worms, LLC > www.mickworms.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message