Genealogy Chat

I have often seen threads on here where the poster is agonising over whether Fred Bloggs who married Mary Smith is the father of her child born six months before they married.......Yet had the baby been born 10 years after the marriage the poster would be quite happy to accept him as the father! But maybe he is the bio dad in the first case and the milkman is the bio dad in the second case!!! LOL My hubby has had a DNA test to prove his bio father is the man who brought him up (there is an imposter on hubby's birth cert!! LOL) I just wish hubby would hurry up and complete the job of getting this through the court and having a declaration made for the GRO so an amendment can be made to his birth cert. Merry

I think you are probably right Heather. I think perhaps there is a lot to be said for the saying 'what you don't know, can't hurt you'. Kath. x

Ah, but back then Kath, I think people were content to have food in their belly and a roof over their head and it probably never occurred to them to wonder about their genetic parentage.

You're quite right Heather, but I still know of an awful lot of people who would give anything to know their true parentage, even though they have been brought up happily by wonderful 'parents' who weren't around at the conception. Kath. x

Fair comment.....!

Absolutely true, but then is it that important? I tend to think that the people who formed our ancestry are the ones that we are connected to. A passing sailor in dockland may be the sire of your ancestor, but surely its the family who shaped his outlook and the stories he heard from them etc. that makes them 'our family'?

Morning, Alter. How can any of us be sure of any baby's parentage unless we were present at the conception?!! I have quite a few that I am not sure whether one or either of the 'parents' actually were. I am certain that some of my ancestors stated that babies in their household were their own when they were actually the illegitimate babies of their unmarried daughters.

no proof that the mother on the cert is the true mother either!!

Of course, they are absolutely right. How many of us can be 100% certain that our father really IS our father. One of my mothers little sayings:- Mother's baby, father's 'maybe'!! Kath. x

The only reliable proven bloodline we can all follow is a pure female bloodline,ie your mothers ,mothers,mothers,mother etc.....never thought about it like that until reading tonight that thats what german genealogists take more seriously.....food for thought