Nobody ever heard of him before 2006. This was 33 years ago. Had I not already served in the Marines Corps and had college records and all that kind of stuff, I might have gone ahead and used my wife’s last name since hers is easy to spell, pronounce and is somewhat famous.
My last name is on my BC, but the man who is listed as my father is not my father, nor would I ever claim such a person as my father.
I was raised solely by my grandfather, and I went by his last name until I was 14, even though I knew it was not legally mine. I lived in a very small town where everybody knows everybody else so it wasn’t a big deal.
When he died I was sent to live with my mother in another state. From that time on I had to use the legal last name on my BC, that of her first husband.
He was a wife beating, child abusing, too sorry to work good for nothing that would rather live off county relief (we didn’t have welfare in those days) than get an honest job. I am told that he paid someone else to go into the Army instead of him when he was drafted.
The bottom line though is that now that my only child, a daughter, is now married and has a child of her own, that last name through me will now disappear....................
I hope you leave some sort of record of all that for your children’s children’s children’s children. That sounds like a genealogist’s nightmare!
I hope you leave some sort of record of all that for your children’s children’s children’s children. That sounds like a genealogist’s nightmare!
I completely understand.
LLS
Understood. Sorry to hear about that.
Anyone can father a child....
But it take a special person to be a Dad.....
Glad you overcame the adversity you experienced in your early life....
Given the facts, I would change my name as well....
Just don’t choose Obama, Biden, Pelosi or Reid :^)
Reagan would be nice.....