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Oooh, our family is very hard to trace. On my mother's side, when gran died, we found forged marriage certificates. She had four children by at least two different men. My mother does not know to this day who her father is, if he had another family, or if he is dead or alive. We don't even know if my gran was ever actually married.

On my father's side, everything was fine until my grannie confessed to having slept around during the war... now my dad's brother's paternity is in question.

And there's question marks over my uncle's children's paternity too.

My MIL found out that she (and therefore DH and DS) was related to Sheryl Cole. That was pretty shocking. (I had to Google Sheryl Cole when she rang up all excited to tell me and was disappointed that she didn't actually mean Sheryl Crowe...)

I'm related to three murderers (one serial) from the 1800s, one bigamist, a forger, two deserters and Albert Einstein At least I'm related to one good guy!

Mind you, my granny was put up for adoption because of her ethnicity (she was an indigenous Laplander in a country where there was a lot of discrimination and forced adoptions, conveniently forgotten nowadays) and her adoptive father was a bigamist and had twelve biological children with three married wives, none of whom knew of the others, as well as two adopted children not including her, one of whom was probably fathered through an affair by him and adopted to make it look right!