General Chat

I've just been reading this article about twins marrying twins:

http://www.oddee.com/item_97898.aspx

I loved the bit about the two chinese couples running a restuarant. The customers didn't realise that it wasn't the same two people working 21 hours a day. :-)

It's interesting to think that the children of one couple would be (genetically) like siblings of the other couple's children; although they would actually be cousins. :-S

It must get quite confusing when identical twins marry identical twins.

Tallking about genetics , I discovered whilst doing my family history that my mother had been been adopted at 2/3 weeks old back in 1916 . Her mother (My Grandmother) died a few days after giving birth to her.( so not a strictly a legal on paper adoption).

Mothers adopted parents William and Millicent were not only her now mum and dad they were also her Uncle and Aunt . How come that you say... Well....
William was the brother of my mother`s mother and Millicent was the sister of my mother`s Father. So in essence my mother was genetically fully connected to BOTH her adoptive parents. thus her grandparents remained the same for both sets of parents (Biological and adoptive).

btw, I was oblivious to all this up until starting the family tree many years after my mother`s death in 1979.
When mother passed away the only thing I knew about her, was her name and birthdate.
She never, never ever mentioned any of her family whatsoever, not even about her adoption or, my unknown father.

I have since discovered who my father was and that I have 5 half siblings (they dont want to know though, they`ve been told its not true. Well, who are they going to believe, me, a total stranger or their long dead father`s aging sister (their Aunt). Thing is I have no proof, please dont mention dna, made the offer but it never came to fruition.
Well they may seek to reject the truth, but they are quite unable to alter the genetics.

Ooops... Sorry! I went into waffle mode, he,he,
:-D :-D