A funny story that is relevant:
My wife has done the ancestry thing and takes her family lineage pretty serious. She has done a lot of digging on those sites and pieced a lot of interesting (albeit worthless) info together. One day she got a message from a guy stating that he was an orphan, and was doing what Jim is doing, and he believed she might have been a first cousin. So my wife took his name and DOB and started cutting sign.
She almost immediately determined that he was her half-brother.
After some more digging, it was determined that her dad (my father-in-law) had knocked up his high school sweetheart prior to leaving for bootcamp. When he came home his then girlfriend was nowhere to be found and her parents told him to fugk off when he came by.
This was pre-abortion era so they sent her to some orphanage to schit the kid, feel shame, and finish school. She never told the father anything. With the exception of the parents and the kid's mother, nobody knew for almost 50 years.
A whole life spent unintentionally apart. Crazy schit.
