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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve started tracing family genealogy with my kid.  My dad knows quite a bit about his father’s side of the family but not his mother’s.  Based on what his mother told him, his grandfather remarried, and the his mother didn’t get along with the step mother.  Basically she left home relatively young and married someone quite a bit older to escape an unpleasant home life.  His grandfather supposedly died shortly thereafter well before he was born.

According to my preliminary research based on census records, his grandfather didn’t die, but lived on for several decades.  (I could have met him.)  Since I am a novice at this, I need to confirm my suspicions with additional records to know for sure.  I’ve put aside researching this branch of the family tree with my kid b/c I don’t want him to figure this out and inadvertently spill the beans.

Understandably, I think my father would have mixed emotions if he learned his grandfather was alive for most of his life.  His mother (who is long deceased) must have had her reasons for concealing this.

Do you share the discrepancies in the records or just keep mum.  Has anyone encountered this before?  What did you do?[/quote]

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