Hi again This made me realise how important it is to document even present day events. My father was illegitimate, my parents separated when I was 3 (now 66) and I was adopted by my father's mother and his step-father when I was 8. I therefore have a different surname from my father and cannot get access to his army records as this makes me no longer a close enough relative let alone next of kin. As a further confusion, I took a DNA test to try to sort out in the vain hope of tracing my father's line in case some other Ainsworths had taken the test. I recently was contacted by someone with a similar surname to my adopted name becasue my DNA is a very close match to theirs!! Go figure!! Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Cann" <decann@infionline.net> To: <lanark@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [Lanark] A name conundrum > For whatever it might be worth (probably not much), one thing I have > learned > in doing genealogy research for more than two decades is that you can ill > afford to take facts and details for granted. I have a good friend who > lost > both parents in an auto accident as a very young child, and it almost took > his life as well. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, who legally > adopted him just to make everything official, and to this day the names in > most of his school and other records for "parents" is different than > surname > because they are actually his maternal grandparents. > ------------------------------- > > LANARK, SCOTLAND MAILING LIST > > > LIST TOPIC: The discussion and research of genealogy or history > information pertaining to Lanark, Scotland at any point in its history. > > WHEN REPLYING to any list post please remember to snip most of the earlier > message before you post any reply > > LIST INFORMATION PAGE: Contact the List Admin at > lanark-admin@rootsweb.com; or to search the list archives, get information > on subscribing or unsubscribing, or to obtain other useful information to > help you use the list more effectively, please click on the following link > to the list information page online: > > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >