Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Beeman URL: http://boards.ancestry.netscape.com/surnames.beeman/222.1.1/mb.ashx Subject: Re: Harrison & Rachel Beeman...Pike Co, Ohio Author: kaimichunt Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005 Classification: Query Surnames:
I already have all of the info from Monroe back to the 1700's. Thanks. What I am concentrating on is the mysterious Aunt Lizzie that my Great-Grandfather always talked about. I don't mean to be snarky, and maybe I took what you said out of context, but just because someone is "adopted" doesn't mean you're not "related". My Great Great Grandfather and my Great Grandfather had relationships with these people.My Great Great Grandfather was raised by the Beeman's from a very young age, his values and the man he became came from the Beeman's love and guidance, his genetics had nothing to do with any of that. The family photos I have are of the Beeman's.... the stories I was told were about the Beemans, the memories made were with the Beemans.....and they are whom I consider my family. My Great-Grandfather lived until I was almost 30 years old. I spent every weekend with him & my great grandmother when I was a kid. I was unbelieveably blessed to have them in my life that long and every family story I was told were about the Beemans, not the McCoys or Doubles....it is obvious that my Great Great Grandfather was considered one of the family by the Beemans and considered himself a Beeman, so why should I treat it any different? To ignore the Beeman's and focus my research on people they didn't even know would be a slap in the face to my Great Great Grandfather, my Great Grandfather, and even to Harrison and Rachel. My Great-Grandfather had a strong bond with his "Aunt Lizzie" & she is actually the Beeman I am concentrating on finding more information on and getting in contact with her living descendents....THEY are the ones who would have photos of my Grandfather's or possibly old letters, and stories to share, just as I have of their anestors, not the McCoys or Doubles. Which by the way, I AM researching those lines also but not as in depth. Again, sorry if I sound snarky,but adoption is a touchy subject with me...my neice was adopted by my husbands brother and I am one of those people who believe that you don't have to be blood to be a family. I mean should I walk up to my niece and say "hey kid, I'm not really your aunt, so don't put me down in your family tree but your brother is really my nephew, so its okay if he does".....I don't think so! She couldn't be more my niece if MY blood was in her and it would probably break my heart if she didn't want to research her Daddy's side of the family because they're "not her true ancestrial lineage". The family she is around today are the ones who love her, the ones who are going to matter to her, who are going to mold her into the woman she will become, we are the ones she is making memories with......her biological father and his family doesn't have a thing to do with that! As the saying goes, any man can make a baby but it takes a special man to be a Daddy....just because she doesn't have my brother-in-law's blood doesn't mean she isn't his daughter.Just because she doesn't have my husbands blood doesn't make her any less our niece. Not trying to be argumentative.....just my point of view on the matter.
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