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ANDY: I am so sorry that you are having difficulty getting your head around the test results confirming your suspicions. I would suggest your father must be a really wonderful person to have stayed with your mother, and raised you. I imagine that during the war years many people did all sorts of things they may have lived to regret. I can't even begin to think myself into those circumstances.
May I clarify on this point from GUY....
QUOTE "That depends on what they are referring to, whether it is the DNA results or the ethnicity results. Ethnicity is a construct that changes. Whereas your DNA is fixed in every cell of your body and does not change unless you have other DNA added by various routes, e.g. bone marrow transplant, blood transfusion etc....... Cheers Guy"
I was a committed blood donor for 50 years..... Is it possible I could be handed up to 100 "DNA matches" that have zero ancestral connection, but who have been recipients of my blood donations??
I think my father is a bit embarrassed by the whole thing - he doesn't seem to want anyone else to know.
Perfectly understandable; "a bit embarrassed" may be an understatement. If I were in his shoes, I wouldn't want anyone outside the immediate family knowing.
Well, it's hardly his fault if my mother cheated. It's certainly tainted my opinion of her - but if it is confirmed he isn't my bio-father (which I am almost certain he won't be at this point) - I suppose I can't be too angry at her because I'd be wishing myself away.
I think he probably just doesn't want a big fuss over the whole thing. I've not told anyone yet anyhow, save for a few friends, and only one of my sisters knows. Not because I don't want people to know... but just because it doesn't make a huge amount of difference to our relationship.
I'd like to know how the culprit is, as it were, but not so we can have a relationship - I just want to complete as many of the pieces of the puzzle as I can.
I suppose both of us are also a little concerned of tainting everyone else's view of her too; her siblings, and nieces and nephews etc.
Methinks he doth protest too much !
I don’t think he isn’t racially motivated !
In my view he ought really to be contacting the newspaper ,assuming it is still in existence ,that was your source.
If you added a note saying this was never proved and further research by other family members has that it is not true so you have amended your records accordingly .
I am not sure what else you can do.
What can he do?
Gosh, if I believed half of what my mother’s surviving siblings told me ——
Don’t worry ,if he were not racially prejudiced he would be proud of the Aborigine connections.You could throw that at him, that far from not being racially motivated he patently is ,is that an offence ?
I think it is here .
He will probably then be more worried than you - I sincerely hope so.
You won’t be the only researcher who has this info in your tree ,what can he do? He won’t know of all the others .
Tell him to take it up with the Newspaper.
Viktoria.
PS- Sorry folks your replies arrived whilst I was typing mine .We are in agreement anyway,
V.
The following is mentioned in the Marriage With A Deceased Wife's Sister Bill — (No 51) Volume 245: debated on Tuesday 6 May 1879
"Such marriages are practically legal in the whole Canadian Dominion, the West Indies, and, it is believed, entire Channel Islands".
Link: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/1879-05-06/debates/a05758fa-a953-445d-83ec-fef5cfca2237/MarriageWithADeceasedWifeSSisterBill%E2%80%94(No51)
Hello,
According to Jerripedia, Clement Noel was buried in St. Martin on the 5th of March 1814 and was ‘of the West’. His wife Elizabeth was buried there on the 4th of August 1804, recorded as the wife of Clement ‘of the West’. Does anyone know what this might mean? I know there was a West regiment of the Jersey militia, but St. Martin is in the east of the island.
I’d greatly appreciate any help!
Adam
