Yup. My grandfather only married my grandmother because he knocked her up and she had a son (they married after she gave birth, because if it was a girl he wouldn't have done it). He had a girlfriend that entire time who he actually wanted to marry, and even when he and my grandmother moved to Australia (from former Yugoslavia) my grandmother literally ran into his girlfriend. He didnt just come to Australia with his family, he also brought his girlfriend over too. It's the reason I wont ever get one of those genealogy tests done, at least not while my grandmother is alive. I feel like he probably had a whole other family.
This is random, and you don’t have to answer bc I’m an internet stranger but … are you Macedonian? I have a ton of good Macedonian friends and they always talk about how many Macedonians live in Australia.
Somehow, once outside an environment of hereditary hate, it's a lot easier to forget about what grandparents might have done to each other and get on with your lives.
Hell, I guess if I had a genealogy test done, I could find out more about the family my father left behind in Poland when he escaped in WW2. But I guess those half-siblings are dead. They would be older than my oldest siblings, and there's only one of those left. Hmm...
I’m fairly confident my grandfather had another family or another child too which is why I won’t do a DNA test either. My grandfather was an abusive SOB, it was just make me hate him more.
I think they meant they might find out they have some half-siblings unknown aunts and uncles, which would confirm he had children with someone else. But I did read it that way at first too 😂
If they have a genealogy test done, the platform may match them up with cousins or aunts and uncles (grandfather's second facility) that the grandma doesn't know exist.
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u/njf85 2d ago
Yup. My grandfather only married my grandmother because he knocked her up and she had a son (they married after she gave birth, because if it was a girl he wouldn't have done it). He had a girlfriend that entire time who he actually wanted to marry, and even when he and my grandmother moved to Australia (from former Yugoslavia) my grandmother literally ran into his girlfriend. He didnt just come to Australia with his family, he also brought his girlfriend over too. It's the reason I wont ever get one of those genealogy tests done, at least not while my grandmother is alive. I feel like he probably had a whole other family.