"Illegitimacy" in the early 20th century?

[BuffaloTransplant]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

i ran into similar problems. i gave up and turned to DNA testing i trust it more than family stories to establish my background. people lie alot. far more than most realize.

DNA is only truly valid if the father's line is direct. Mito is not really very useful.

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by BuffaloTransplant

DNA is only truly valid if the father's line is direct. Mito is not really very useful.

The DNA won't lie. It just may take a chain saw to your tree if there was an adoption or an out of wedlock birth you didn't know about.

[bjh]

Originally Posted by BuffaloTransplant

DNA is only truly valid if the father's line is direct. Mito is not really very useful.

Admixture tests show the percentage of races in a person, nothing to do with Y chromosone or mitochondrial DNA.

[EnricoV]

Originally Posted by bjh

Good tip. Never heard of bastardy bonds! Can you give us a 'for instance' of what region, country, states those might have been used?

Well, they came out of the English legal system, so it's mostly in the states that were the original colonies. I've seen a lot of the North Carolina ones, because they have been published. But I've seen them in New England states as well.

Who was posting the bond is always someone who should be looked at to be the father. That was common. Sometimes, too, the father might be the person to whom an illegitimate child was apprenticed.