Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 25 Sep 2016<\/p>\n
In the past six months I’ve been approached by two clients who had adoption inquiries. \u00a0I used to be contacted by folks who were adopted and were searching for their birth parents but lately, I’ve noticed a different trend.<\/p>\n
The first individual discovered she was adopted while she was at college. \u00a0Her assigned roommate swore she knew someone back home that looked identical to her. \u00a0This was before Facebook and email so seeing a picture or contacting the “twin” had to wait. In the spring of her freshman year the client visited the roommate’s home and upon entering, roommate’s family remarked about the resemblance. \u00a0Unfortunately, the client wasn’t able to meet this “twin” because the “twin” was out of town as it was her spring break, too. \u00a0Everywhere the client went that week she encountered people who called her by the “twin’s” name. \u00a0Finally, someone showed her a picture and indeed, there was a striking resemblance. \u00a0A few weeks after the client returned to college she was contacted by the “twin’s” father. \u00a0He had heard of the client’s visit and wondered if perhaps, they were related. \u00a0The client called her parents who fessed up – she had been adopted and they knew who her parents were. \u00a0Yes, the “twin’s” father was her father, too. \u00a0When this client called me I thought she was interested in tracing her birth parents’ lines but she wasn’t. \u00a0Her adopted parents were an older couple who had recently died and she wanted to know about their families. \u00a0She felt that they had given her their family’s customs and norms and she was more a part of their lineage than her birth parents. \u00a0Shortly after working for this client an episode of Genealogy Roadshow aired and an adopted woman was to trying to verify a family story told to by her adopted parents. \u00a0As part of their family, she felt the story was a part of her history, too.<\/p>\n
Last month,I was contacted by another individual who asked me to complete lineage paperwork for her sister. \u00a0I thought this was going to be fairly quick as the client’s mother had been a part of the organization. \u00a0When I mentioned I would need the birth certificate the client let me know that her “sister” had been adopted. \u00a0The organization that the ladies were interested in joining does not accept applications unless bloodline is proved. After explaining that I thought there might be a way around this dilemma. \u00a0Often children are adopted by other family members and if that was the case, proving kinship might still be viable. \u00a0Unfortunately, that wasn’t the situation. \u00a0The woman, who is in her 50’s, had discovered who her birth parents were and confirmed it through dna testing a few years ago. \u00a0I offered to research the birth parents but client and her sister weren’t interested. \u00a0They had been raised as siblings and if they couldn’t join as siblings they weren’t interested.<\/p>\n
As our society evolves so does the concept of family. \u00a0My opinion is we are all related anyway. \u00a0If the inquiry is to learn more about customs and norms than I understand why there is an interest. \u00a0If the concern is medical, however, it may or may not be valid. \u00a0We’re all aware that lifestyle effects health but so does our genetic makeup. \u00a0My prediction is that genealogy software is going to \u00a0catch up to enable a connection between two sets of parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 25 Sep 2016 In the past six months I’ve been approached by two clients who had adoption inquiries. \u00a0I used to be contacted by folks who were adopted and were searching for their birth parents but lately, I’ve noticed a different trend. The first individual discovered she was adopted while … Continue reading “The Adoption Trend”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[350,351],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-musings","tag-adoption","tag-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}