>>One of my Logan Co. gg grandfathers had a child born to a young lady prior >>to 1861 - maybe late 1850s. She was listed as his next of kin on his >>military papers. How do you all handle this sort of thing?<< Rick, If everyone is dead and everyone knew about it anyway then I put it in. You are right....we all have a lot of them if we go back far enough. With some children I know the fathers and some I don't....like the father of my gr-gr-grandma's last three children. I was astounded when I found that her husband had died three years before my ancestress was born....then she went on to have two more. My genealogy program, RootsMagic, allows me to enter it and gives me an option to keep it private. Carole

My family in Virginia has a lot of illegitemacies (spelling). Makes research interesting and provides exciting information for talks. As far as I know my West Virginia direct line families were very straight. However my "blue blood" Virginia families were not so pure. Jim Burgess -----Original Message----- From: Carole Hammond [mailto:carole.hammond@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:28 PM To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Secrets >>One of my Logan Co. gg grandfathers had a child born to a young lady prior >>to 1861 - maybe late 1850s. She was listed as his next of kin on his >>military papers. How do you all handle this sort of thing?<< Rick, If everyone is dead and everyone knew about it anyway then I put it in. You are right....we all have a lot of them if we go back far enough. With some children I know the fathers and some I don't....like the father of my gr-gr-grandma's last three children. I was astounded when I found that her husband had died three years before my ancestress was born....then she went on to have two more. My genealogy program, RootsMagic, allows me to enter it and gives me an option to keep it private. Carole ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

The elders may want to keep this stuff hidden in the closet but if their child needed a kidney transplant or a full medical history would save a grandchild, and these are things I've run into helping other families, bet grandma would spill the beans as to who's the daddy. When you're 65, you don't want money from your 89 year old biological father, but you would like to know if he and all his family had diabetes, gout or heart disease. Sue At 09:28 PM 6/19/06 -0700, you wrote: >>>One of my Logan Co. gg grandfathers had a child born to a young lady >>>prior to 1861 - maybe late 1850s. She was listed as his next of kin on >>>his military papers. How do you all handle this sort of thing?<< > > >============================== >Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >New content added every business day. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx