My niece is in town for a few days. She has been the spark we needed to start finding out something about my dad. His birth certificate has a different name on it than he knew as his name. Not only that, his birthday is different on it than he thought it was. His mother was very secretive about any information about the family. He had no other living relative that we knew of other than his mother and she never remarried. So we started on Ancestors.com, looking for some solid facts.
We found someone who matches up pretty closely with the facts we have who was a boarder with a family at a very early age. Putting pieces together, he may well have been put in foster care after his father died when he was probably 3 years old. His mother must have had to go out and find work somewhere before she was able to care for him on her own.
So the search will continue until we get some truth about his family. It is interesting how there were more skeletons that stayed in closets back then than there are today.
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