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The Lighter Side / Re: Becoming too invested in one ancestor?
« on: Saturday 19 May 18 16:17 BST (UK) »
Definitely YES! My mission was to identify my great grandmother, who, it became evident, was my adoptive GGM. Her own heritage was misidentified in the documents at hand. Thinking them true, I stubbornly sought her out, for far too long. Moving on to other relatives as proxy, I found the biological side of things (maybe: no DNA) to finish my book Double Genealogy: the Adoption Witness.
Adoptive GGM's past actually emerged late in the research, but there are many who will remain hidden in the past, who can be well hinted by the study of those around them.
Adoptive GGM's past actually emerged late in the research, but there are many who will remain hidden in the past, who can be well hinted by the study of those around them.