Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post

...and by the way, it you come back to me with "blood is thicker than water" and an argument that you should stick always to blood relatives first, then being a priest, I even have scriptural evidence to suggest further thought on the matter.
I've always found it a bit strange that people will claim kinship with someone they've never met and perhaps will never met, in a different part of the world, based on the fact that they seem to share a last name. I feel a closer affinity to people I work with (and, arguably, we all belong to a closer "club" than that based on a name). But then again, I've also never had a desire to trace genealogy and look up supposed relatives I never knew-- the ones I already have are fine for me. Perhaps it's some sort of lacking in curiosity on my part. I love finding out where ancestors have come from and lived and how, but that's something different.


Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post
That is in my mind, ond of the (few) advantages, although perhaps more rare than we might think. No, I was referring to the sort of thing that comes out as in the last post about the father/ grandfather and all of the family disruption such a discovery could cause.
Although it certainly doesn't have to be shared. No one even needs to know you took the test. Certainly those who might take issue with the results don't need to be told ahead of time, and in the case of others, surely a simple "yep, we're mostly from Russia" would suffice.