My late father only found out in his late 50s that he had been adopted by his grandparents after his mother handed him over. For his whole life he thought that his birth mother was his older sister. Both his mother and grandmother must have thought they were taking the secret to the grave, but he found out when he applied for a 10-year passport in the mid 1980s. Because of a family Rift I only found out the truth a couple of years ago, and I subsequently found out that his mother had two further relationships in the 1930s and I now have a cousin in Australia who I will be meeting for the first time next month, and another cousin as well. I hope that my DNA test might tell me more about the whole story.
I will report back when I get my test results. I am going to be so busy understanding the whole subject of DNA.
Martin
