Longer answer than you probably wanted cookie_chefMarch 21 2013, 22:59:56 UTC
Yes, but my family is a little more....ah, complicated. I didn't mean my bio dad until after I'd graduated high school, and that was because I searched him out. I didn't even know I had siblings until the day I met him. My dad had an estranged relationship with his parents (which are both deceased) and as a result he left home very early and pretty much never looked back.
He rarely talks to me or my siblings about extended family (they didn't know they had aunts and uncles on that side until they were in their teens), his prior military service, etc. What we know is because of fragments we've pieced together. My objective when I first met my dad was not necessarily to cultivate a relationship (although we have) but to get a few answers, have a little closure and get a sense of family medical history. None of that has really happened in the way that I'd hoped. Needless to say, there are a lot of holes for me which makes genealogy searches more difficult.
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He rarely talks to me or my siblings about extended family (they didn't know they had aunts and uncles on that side until they were in their teens), his prior military service, etc. What we know is because of fragments we've pieced together. My objective when I first met my dad was not necessarily to cultivate a relationship (although we have) but to get a few answers, have a little closure and get a sense of family medical history. None of that has really happened in the way that I'd hoped. Needless to say, there are a lot of holes for me which makes genealogy searches more difficult.
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