uhm!!!! so does this mean our research is 'pointless'

[stevew101]

I am thinking that I may need to buy some more software.  I am not sure if my database can hold so many children for one family.  Just in case!

[Guyana]

[Wonder what his occupation was noted as on his childrens birth certificates  [children he had to his wife that is]
[/quote]He was a precision grinder.

[tedscout]

Oh wow that is 15 children a year. That means if a baby was made each visit that is more than one visit a month.

I wonder if the visits were planned for an area to save money on travel. I.e "You have 4 ladies in London this week Derek 

Did anyone think of STD's. I would have been concerned about that if I was his wife.

Leaves too many questions in my mind. 

[Maggie.]

Rather a mind-boggling story 

Wars and their aftermath must always have resulted in some dodgy paternities but Derek's story is in another league!!

However, I shall continue to assume that my paternal line is as it purports to be as after all I do appear to look a bit like paternal grandfather 

Maggie

[Mike in Cumbria]

Being a father involves much more than providing a sperm at the right moment.

I would be much more interested in the man who brought up my ancestor, and the people who had shaped his life than in being able to trace a particular strand of DNA.

Mike

[Anni B]

I'd take the whole story with a large pinch of salt, after all it seems to originate from the "Daily Mail".  Need I say more about that pernicious rag?
Anne

[brigidmac]

My mother had a match who had "sperm doner " written on their tree . I did contact someone else who matched them who said "oh yes my brother was a sperm doner in the 1970s and I get lots of people contacting me ! "

[coombs]

There was a time once when I did think that to be an ancestor of someone you have to actually be the blood ancestor, and biologically descended from them. But now I strongly refute that in cases where a man raised an ancestor from babyhood whether blood or not. The child took their surname and the man was married to the mother plus much more outside the sperm donor. Also you do not inherit DNA from every single blood ancestor anyway.

If a man married a pregnant woman and he knew the real father had fled or died and he was saving her from a sticky situation and raised the child as his own, then I would deffo count him as the child's father.

[martin hooper]

I'd take the whole story with a large pinch of salt, after all it seems to originate from the "Daily Mail".  Need I say more about that pernicious rag?
Anne

My thoughts exactly. Sounds like baloney to me.

Martin