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Good luck on your journey,

Absolutely.

Blaine county’s lucky to have you, Big Jim.

Good for you Jim!

You're on your way.

Good to know that your quest s being rewarded with result - I wish you the very best as things unfold.

Kiana Alaska.

Sounds like a cold place.

My sons mom was adopted. Her adoptive parents we’re fugged up but gave her a lot of love and a great lifestyle, she always wanted to meet her birth parents. Her adoptive parents weren’t really for it. Seems like a pretty natural thing to me. She never meet them because she feared she wouldn’t live up to whatever hopes and standards that her birth parents had.

I think if it were me I’d want to know. Good luck to you in whatever you decide. At the end of the day it’s whatever you think best and your choice.

I find looking up ancestor to be fun. A glimpse of the past.
Hope it works out well for ya.


On a side note. A friend of my wife's recently did the 23 and me or some such thing. It was apparent that her lineage was not the same as her dad's. She perused it and found out that her deceased mother obviously ran around on her dad.

For some reason she found it important to ask her dad for a paternity test that proved the point. Her dad is in his late 80's and her mom obviously dead. I couldn't wrap my head around doing that. What a gift to a dying man who by all accounts was a good father?

I wasn't in those shoes, so maybe I'd feel different, but doubt it.

Anyway, obviously not your situation but it brought it to mind.

I hope you get the answers your looking for Jimbo!

Good luck Big Jim!

Small village. I worked for a guy that had a native gf from there.

I hope it gives you some peace to know your genetic history. My adopted father asked me if I wanted to know about my bio father. I told him he was my father and I think it hurt his feelings as he had kept track of my bio father for those 18 years. A couple of years later my adopted father committed suicide and none of my adopted family knew what Dad knew. I do know my birth Mother's name and that she grew up around Albion IL. If you know that area PM me please. Be Well, RZ.

Jim,

Can you explain how the birth certificates are handled for cases like yours? I've been told there was some (relatively) recent case law regarding the acquisition of birth certificates for orphans but have never spoken with anybody that had first hand knowledge/experience with the subject.

And in cases like yours, what did your parents use for your birth certificate all these years?

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.

Did the Ancestry thing, it can be addictive BTW, found out that a 'Kenyan' had joined the 'wood pile'........ now my Uncle will not speak to me!!!!

The 'Kenyan' joined a 'side-line' of the family and so we are not direct descendants.........

Yep!!!! THAT Kenyan!

Uncle is an 8th cousin.............. we laugh about it.

Euro Royalty, English, French, Spanish, Whores and Indian Killers, Revolution and Civil War vets, Cousin to Dr Edward Maynard............... most people yawn, but mention the Kenyan!!!!!!!!

Hope it all works out well Jim...............

The only sure way to know the muffin man.

Daddy died when I was (almost) 3.
Seriously. Not just a Hank Jr song.

Don't remember anything about him, seriously seek out info
from his friends. Just stories to help me feel close to the man.
Complicated, many don't understand.

Mom met my other Dad when I was 8. He raised me.

There is a desire in many to know what they come from,
unexplainable. Have a family book from my biological father,
it's neat too read the stories, just to get a sense of ones place
in the past. Good honorable people. Proud to follow, hope to
live up to their level.

Another branch?
No book, nowhere near the depth on history.
That's ok! Can't stand the ones I know.
Treacherous pricks, better avoided and stay away from their schemes.

Jim,
hope you have success in gathering knowledge.
Hope you can make some pleasant contacts.
If any are disappointing, or just downright bad,
remember they aren't you.

You are a good dude. That's largely your adoptive parents and you personally.

My (step)Dad always likes to say,
"Everyone has to take his own hide to town!"

You can wear yours with pride.

Best of luck. Two of my great grandparents were orphans. So we know nothing on one of my grandmother's side.

Good luck Jim.

Lol, Jim's dad?

Glad you have a name. It's a step in the process. I hope it all goes the way you want it to. I found out I'm a limey in a house full of krauts and Norwegians. Both my Dad and my biological father hunt, fish, and reload. My bio father collects Model 70's. Some things are pre-ordained.

I forgot to add a weird one; all three of us are left handed although my Dad shoots righty. Strange things that make you wonder about the universe...