October 15, 2025

AF-1166: When Family Isn’t Family | Ancestral Findings Podcast


Genealogy provides us with more than just names and dates. It reveals how people lived, what they valued, and how they formed the ties that made them family. Those ties are not always simple. As research deepens, we begin to see that the concept of family has never had a single, unified meaning. It shifts with time, culture, and circumstance.

This article looks at what happens when “family” does not follow the expected line of descent. It explores how people have shaped, recorded, and redefined their families throughout history and what that means for genealogical research today...

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