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From: "Delia Gleave" <d@deliagleave.f9.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Essex family problems - to disclose or not?
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:39:57 +0100
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The only time anything like this has happened was when I discovered two
Gleave brothers in Manchester in a school for the deaf and dumb in 1881 and
had to tell a fellow genealogist. Their father was a brother to both of our
ancestors. This disability does not seem to have recurred and we were all
surprised to find it. I'm a special needs teacher myself and have had a
Down's Syndrome son, not to mention being married into this line and also
being adopted, so I don't suppose a lot would disturb me personally.

Perhaps as genealogists we are all inclined to want the warts and all - I
feel I have to drip-feed illegitimacies gently to other family members but
everyone has taken it well so far, including the events in one line which
have occurred almost in my lifetime [I'm 54]. With a lot of fore- and
sideways-thought, it's almost possible to make people think they've found it
out for themselves sometimes.

I know this doesn't help a lot, Colleen, but there's my twopennorth!

Delia




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