An Open Secret

Brigitte, pictured above, is the latest in a long line of family members that have been adopted. This happened a month before her 9th birthday.

Working backwards, Brigitte’s mother, Amy, is my adopted child. I was adopted at age 14 by my (natural) mother, Jean, and her husband, Rus. Mom was adopted before she was even 1, and her own birth mother has a questionable link to her family.

This seems to be the new ‘normal’.

But it makes researching our family tree very tricky indeed.