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Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Legal & birth father
From: Listpig <listpig@earthlink.net>
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No, but he's going to have contributed a lot of cultural and psychological
makeup.  For that reason, I like to list and trace both.

Then you can tell someone "Here's your bloodline......and here's the people
who made your grandfather who he was."

If you're interested in more than names and dates, it seems like that's
equally crucial to understanding the *people* involved.

--pig


On 3/6/06 14:10, "Patti" <phacht@peoplepc.com> wrote:

<snip> 
> I very much realize that the emotional bond may be massive with a legal father
> and he may have given his child all he had, but the one thing he could not
> give is genetic make-up.
> 
> Patti
> Lakeville, MI
>