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Karen

Karen Report 23 Oct 2012 12:36

Hi
I am at a stone wall in searching for my relatives. I was wanting to know who my Grandad was as my father does not know and his Mum is will not tell anyone, I am begining to think she does not know :-(
Also there were 2 children that were adopted my uncle and my auant. In most cases the surnames are changed when adopted is this correct?
I feel im looking for a needle in a haystack. Does anyone have any suggestions I do have rough dates, and have found a birth records for both my aunt and uncle..... Please can anyone help me :-)

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 23 Oct 2012 13:18

When a legally-arranged adoption takes place, the child assumes the surname of the adoptive parents

I doubt that you will learn the identity of your grandfather if the info is being witheld by the woman who had his child(ren)

Are your 'aunt & uncle' 100% certain to be your father's full-blood siblings?

.........and do the birth records show a MMN different from the registered surname?

If so.......one of the certs may help.

I assume that your father has his own birth cert?

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 23 Oct 2012 13:49

If there is no father's name on your father's birth certificate then you are never going to know who your grandfather was if your grandmother does not wish to tell anyone who he was.

Sometimes you just have to accept that that particular line of your family tree cannot go back any further. It happens to a lot of us at some point. I will never know who my maternal grandmother's father was.

Kath. x