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if'n one wants to find out how many cousins, etc one has all that has to be done is sign up for 23&me, ancestry or some of the other dna clubs.

lot's of cousins will be identified is my guess, and ya won't hardly know of any of them whatsoever.

I've got two cousins in their mid to late 60s who are half siblings but didn't meet until about 5 years ago despite living within 10 miles of each other for the majority of their lives. Dad had a son with first wife who died young, son went to live with her sister/Aunt. He remarried a few years later and had daughter. Apparently all those years the Aunt had told the kid not to speak to Dad or step-mom because they would send him to an orphanage and told Dad that son hated him and didn't want to see him. Years later after Aunt died her other sister finally confessed what had happened.

Am close to my step family, nice people.

Get on Ancestry do a DNA test. There are forums that may help you work thru the possibilities that Ancestry discovers.

With Ancestry you can also transfer the DNA to 2 other DNA sites for free. Family Search from the Mormon church may

help also, they are also free.

Gawd I hope Im not on any mormon family tree dna. I’d rather have a negro cousin.

It can happen.

Funny thing is GT ain't been able to find any family..........No one will step forward and claim him........

One time I found out I have a HUGE number of previously unknown relatives. They just all called me about the same time. I have no idea how they all found me at once. It was right after I won the lottery.

j/k

Hey, cousin. No one told me you had won the lottery. How much? When we getting together?

Four half sisters and a half brother. Both parents were married before. Haven't seen the half brother and sister on my dad's side in over 30 years. Used to see the three half sisters from my mom's side once a year at Christmas. Haven't seen them since 2014. Only one of them I even care to see ever again. The other two are miserable bitches.

That old saw about blood being thicker than water is crap.

My dad just turned 80 and hadn't seen or heard from his other son in over 30 years and he just turned up this summer. Pisses me off, but dad is glad to see him.

I been told that being "family" is earned not a birth right.

I've got a half brother and half sister I never met. Dad looked for them back in the day, but could not find them. Bitter divorce and custody battle at a time when fathers were truly considered nothing more than a paycheck. Multiple, multiple court order violations by her, violating visitation orders. Nothing ever happened. Then one day they were gone.

Their mother had changed their names, making attempts to locate after things "settled down" even tougher. He mostly gave up looking back in the 70's. Basically gone without a trace. And in the days of snail mail, and trying to locate someone across the country, it just didn't happen.

The half sister found us about a month after dad passed. Letter in the mail addressed to the old man from a return address with no name from Northern Illinois area. Could tell by the handwriting it was a female of my generation. Mom and I knew who it was before we opened it. Mom sat down, crying, saying "why now? Why not a year ago!".

Dad struggled with it his whole life. He always turned somber around the kids birthdays.

Tough story.

I had intended for some time to go out and meet her...but I guess planes do fly both ways as well. Came close once when we went back to Illinois to visit the W's family, only to find the half sister was going to be out of town and traveling during that time. So we didn't meet up.

We still write from time to time, but the desire to meet her has diminished a great deal. We still follow each other on FB, and she is a died in the wool, flaming, bought the dem BS hook, line and sinker libtard. Extreme liberal. I mean bad. I had to stop her posts from popping up on my "news feed" I think it is, because it was a constant source of aggravation and making me hate her. Daily posts and rants about everything moderate or conservative.

Older brother met her, and thinks I should still do so, despite her politics. But I'm so sick - and have been for years - of the extreme liberal BS, I've cut anyone out of my life who engages in it. Just don't feel like associating with anyone who is assisting with or supporting the politicians and people who are bringing about the downfall of this country. Really don't give a chit who they are.

I have a half brother. Had a half sister until cancer took her away a few years ago.

We never called it half. This is my brother or sister.

My stepdad came into my life at 7 years old. They came after that. He was and is more of a dad to me than my real dad.
94 years old now and one of the greatest people I have ever known. Treats us all the same, whether he was the sperm donor or not.

I guess we had the advantage of all growing up in a loving household! Meeting each other as stranger's at 30 years old like some of you, may have been more of a challenge.

Wife has a half brother and sister. Dad got around. Both contacted her, but she has only seen the brother.