« Reply #19 on: Friday 20 April 18 00:56 BST (UK) »
Continuing, for me its relatively easy as I am comfortable with any discovery I make. I think its this curiosity that got us into FH in the first place.
I took DNA tests to help break brickwalls and to see if any of the family myths are true. ie the aboriginal descent and if my grandfather or even father are related. Neither are resolved satisfactorily but I do have a hint that the 2nd might be incorrect ie I have strong connections confirmed with descendants of ancestors above my grandfather on his side.
Sometimes stubborness can also impact , as we see with the cousins above. I'm not sure my grandfather , if he was alive , would accept this 'evidence' . I should also accept this evidence and I do mostly, its the stickler in me, but I am still looking for the Gibbins males to test. Hop to it chaps.
I have mentioned previously my mother is reluctant to take a DNA test but she is more and more coming around to the idea. I think this stems from the idea that she might find a sister she thinks might be out there.
As of now it is a 'story' of her father playing around and a woman being spotted in the same small area she lived in looking extraordinarily like another of her sisters , so much so people accused her sister of ignoring them. I think her reluctance may only be confirming that her father was as bad as she felt he was and the pain her mother went through.
I am removed 1-2 generations from all of this but if I did find that connection I would sit down and ask my mother as many questions as I could to see her interest. ie 'tell me the story again' ' how do you feel' etc. Then make the call from there. Though I think I would ultimately tell her if the other person wanted to meet her
Genealogy-Its a family thing
Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann, Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole
Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead
Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley
Brickwalls- Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
Gedmatch Kit : T812072