General Chat

Thanks everyone for your interesting replies........how I wish the instigators of these mix-ups could see the quandry they have left many in.This in itself poses a serious question....how many adoptees could be married to half siblings and be totally unaware of it?
My apologies if this offends anyone.

I personally had a half sister and half brother (both children of my adoptive mother and father)and for many,many years we were led to believe that my adoptive father was really my genetic father.However,as I have since discovered, both these children were actually my cousins,and several cousins I was never allowed to mix with,but went to school with(all children of the brother of my adoptive mother)are actually my half siblings.

My sibling has a similar confusion she has 3 children who are all half brothers and sisters. The eldest has 2 other half brothers and 3 step siblings plus a full sibling who was adopted. The middle child has 2 half siblings who themselves are only half siblings and the youngest has 1 half sibling. I pity any of them trying to sort out their tree let on the living let alone the non living !

They didn't get out much.

My eldest niece is in the same position.
She has a half sister via her father, and a half sister via her mother.
She shares genes with each of her siblings, but neither sibling share genes with each other!

On the other hand, if you were to see my mid19th century Lanarkshire, farming families!
I have come to the conclusion that some 2nd marriages were either "arranged" or "encouraged"
Whenever a wife died and the widower remarried, his 2nd wife was almost always, related to his 1st ( a cousin or a niece)
The biological connections were far reaching!

tinkers - it can be!!!

I just list all my children on my tree under the relevant mother. I never add children to the father.

Re the OP's question....

As you have no common relative you are not actually related, however my FTM program classes you as step-siblings.

Dead confused that sounds complicated lol

I have a family in my tree 1 husband 2 wives and between them 7 children and most of the children are not related in any way to each other

Eldest son - illegitimate son of 1st wife
3 children born to 1st marriage
Eldest 2 daughter - illegitimate daughters of 2nd wife
2 children born in 2nd marriage

And as you can see it can get very complicated :-D

I had a similar problem. 'daisy' married into my family tree and had 5 children. Daisy's husband died young and after a couple of years Daisy remarried and had three sons.

One of these sons contacted me and wished to be given the FT info and to be included.

I refused as I consider that neither his mother nor father were part of our tree - his half-siblings were a different matter and Daisy was recorded there until her remarriage.

U have different parents to ur half brothers half sister

Thanks tinkers.

You are probably right...and I was just hoping maybe.....,just maybe!!! :-)

Hiya I might be wrong here but I don't think ur half brothers half sister is any relation to you

I have half-brothers who had the same biological mother as me,but of course not the same father!.Having recently had contact with a lady who is a half sister to my half-brothers by way of sharing the same biological father as them,but not the same mother(I can hear the groans from here :-)could anyone tell me what we are classed as?