I actually have family trees from both my parents. Pretty extensive. Those are my ancestors.
Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:03 pm I understand that, but what if you want to look a bunch of generations up? To great-great-great-great grandmothers?Momto2boys973 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:21 pm I feel completely different. Genes are so unimportant. For me, I have only one family and that’s the one that adopted me and have been there for me always. I have no ill to whoever my biological parents are, I’m very grateful that they chose to give he a chance at life, but just because they gave me some genes, they’re not my family.
I guess the bottom line about finding your ancestors is who contributed to make you the person you are. And for me, those are the people that came before those who made me who I am, which are the people that raised me. The others are just the people who have me my looks.
Anonymous 2 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:01 am I would be more interested in finding bio family before adoptive family. I would put both men down and list one as her bio Dad and one as her adoptive Dad.
But I may be biased. We don't know who my grandpa's Dad was. So I have always wondered and would like to explore that lineage.