1ºMeredith Harris It is not the fact that people are interest about it. That is fine, but some people really go overboard. For example my mother was adopted and we were alway told we were Irish. Well we were not and instead had more eastern European bloodlines. I could careless but some of the family were very upset. Well my grandparent when they adopted my mother and her sister and brother, they wanted Irish children and the birth family though they were Irish but were not. Now maybe they said they were was Irish thinking they would get the 3 children ( triplets) adopted sooner since my Mom was born in 1930 but to me it does not matter. Then on my Dad side we had a relative who started his own company during the revolutionary war. You would think the way some of my cousin act they were the ones who fought that war over 200 years ago, they are so insane over it. I myself love history but most Americans really cannot pin point our heritage due to the lack of records, so most DNA test are just a label of mixed areas. Like I am 100% European. Well that does not give much details. The fact that we rarely look at the mother records is the other issue and much harder to do due to name changes ect. In country that has people who come from all over the world and has been that way for 200 plus years means you find they few people who DNA will match one area.
2ºNone of it matters. Don’t look back, it won’t do any good. Do something positive with your life and stop making excuses because of some B.S. ‘heritage’. Remember, you share only 25% DNA with each individual grandparent, that’s a minority. With each great-grandparent it’s only 12.5% or one eighth. You can see you quickly have almost no heritage in common with any single ancestor after a few generations. Stop thinking it is important in your life because it isn’t. You only look back because you are doing nothing with your life right now, you need to get busy and start working.
3ºEveryone is deserving of knowing their birth history and background if they choose to. Like many of us, it is about filling that gap if mystery. Some find out and walk through that door, others close it once they know a little bit of information. It can be profoundly moving offering one a sense of closure to the mystery, or heartbreaking however leading to more of an understanding of why things happened as they did. But no one, except the finder are entitled to make this decision for themselves. It's a beautiful personal process that needs to be respected and protected in order to learn who they are.
4ºDaniel Sallas I’m an adoptive parent. I absolutely, 100 percent support birth family search. My younger kids have a semi open adoption, so there’s not too much mystery. My oldest is 19 and we have done a DNA test and requested his files from the adoption agency. I think I’m just as nervous/anxious/scared/excited as he is. It is his right to know where he comes from. Sometimes adoptees might be reluctant because they want to protect the adoptive parents feelings, but I think it’s natural to want to know. My kiddos have always known they don’t have to worry about me.
5ºNayana Vishva you are making assumptions about something you nothing about. When you’re adopted and hear about their ancestors, you are very aware they are not yours. My aunt search my adopted mother’s family back to the 1500s, she her info only to the natural children. We don’t have a history or identity. As far as hurting our adopted parents, if you have a good relationship with them, you’ll still have a good relationship. Now that adoption is not the dirty little secret it once was, it is more common to for both biological and adoptive parents to be in the child’s life.
6ºJose Hernandez
Nah. Lots of hypocrisy in your words. After living in Dallas, or Irving TX? Latinos are very racist to everyone but their own. I work at several places there and see how they treat and talk about others…You’re preaching to the choir amigo. And since you wanna let the media play you like a fiddle…why do we have a Chinatown? A Koreatown? Is that kinda racist? I’m pretty sure that neither me or you would be welcome there..I don’t see you mention any of that to right? I have more if common sense tips if you wanna have an “intelligent” convo. If not, we understand
7ºDaniel Sallas My cousin gave up her baby when she was 16 years old and being in a Catholic family that was a huge type of scandal. So my Aunt and Uncle had my cousin go out of state to a boarding school for girls who were pregnant , and then put the baby up for adoption. No one in the family knew about the baby. Not even her bothers and sister. 18 year later all of sudden my cousin get a knock on the door and it is her adopted daughter who looks just like my cousin. Well the first thing the daughter did was say to my cousin since you did not pay to raise me you should pay for my college. Well that did not go well as the secret was now out. Well 20 year later there relationship has gotten much better. But if you have been adopted people need to understand you just popping up can bring up lot of problem and it may not be this happy dream some adopted children think will happened.
8ºI did a DNA test after a couple years of research on various websites. I already had a pretty good idea of what the results would be and they were pretty accurate. No surprises in the DNA but doing research online has opened my eyes to the pioneering side of my family, including a Mormon pioneer who actually knew Joseph Smith and Brigham Young to the inventor of perforated toilet tissue and the toilet paper holder, Seth Wheeler! Some of my ancestors were the first to settle towns and extend as far back as the Puritans and early French Canadians.
9ºWell if you go back far enough we were all came from Africa. Really I think it is sort of interesting to learn some of your family history but most people cannot really go back to the last 100 years. I actually was able to find my family history to about the 1500 in France, then went to the Netherlands and then to Dutch West Indies and then the USA. However it is much harder to find my mother background due to her being adopted. We did finally find my Mom's sister's and brother family but unfortunately they also has past. But still have contact with my cousin on Facebook but have not met.
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