lost love child *COMPLETED*

[percy porter]

It's outside my area of expertise but there may well be others that can help. Regardless it makes for an interesting story.

Alan NZ

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10660997

[cmclayton]

Both my Dad's mum and dad are what I call love children ... and I have come to a complete brick wall in finding the their fathers.

[Canterburynorth]

I have a couple of 'love children' in my tree also. I would dearly love to find the Mothers names, the father was a bit of a devil fathering children all over the place

I wonder if they will get any response to the article.

[PaiselyEden]

Our family tree is full of them. It's frustrating!

[suzs]

I can certainly sympathise with you on this one.   I have spent 15 years trying to find my dads birth details and got nowhere!  It was suggested to me that I put his photos on a genealogy "photo board" - if there is one - as photos of course can reveal a lot more than research sometimes. 
Does anyone know of one?

Suz

[Thamesite2017]

Hi Suz
Would it be best to do something like this in a local paper

I have different views than most on these matters, if the people of the time wanted it to be a secret
then we should leave it as such.

Sometimes older people will know stories about what happened that may be shared

BYe
althea

[taonga1]

Omigosh - this is so much along the lines of my biggest genealogy moment!

My husband was a love child - he was adopted out and his birth father was killed climbing the Himalayas a couple of years later, in the late 60s.

It took years, but we found his birth father's family - none of the siblings had known there was a baby. 

Last summer, we took our family to Australia to meet his uncles and aunts and cousins.  It was amazing!  So worth all the energy spent trying to locate the family. 

I wish the family luck - someone somewhere knows who is who, and the local newspaper probably is the best way to reach them.