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Father's Relatives by Susan
How well do you know your father's relatives? I don't know my father's family at all and there is a lot that I would like to know about them. I wish I had asked my dad more questions about his early life before he passed away. I'm asking questions now.
One of my nieces and I have done some searching at various geneology websites in an effort to find out information about my father's ancestry. One site that has been helpful is http://ancestry.com/ It would be so much better if I knew someone who could tell me what his family members were like.
My father was abandoned by his parents as a young child. His mother left the family and his father couldn't or wouldn't support the children. I believe there were three sibblings, but I don't know that for a fact. I have not been able to locate any of them yet.
Not long after being placed in an orphanage, my father ran away to his grandmother's house. She and her second husband decided to raise him. I met my great grandmother several times before she passed away and I was named after her. We always called her Grandma Susie, which is what my only grandson now calls me.
I would love to have a sense of what my paternal relatives were like, who they were and what kinds of lives they led. How I wish there were pictures! It would be beneficial to me and my sibblings to know their medical history. I hope to find some of that information one day.
I often wonder if I have unknowingly met any of them over the years. I wonder if many of them battle the same depression that my brother and I have struggled with. David and I are winning the battle and I hope my father's relatives won too.
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