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Who’s secret is this to tell ...or NOT tell?

QJ (not shown on the tree, page 69) was aware of a family story that our great-grandfather (B) ‘married’ his own daughter (D) and had children with her. I also have a robust paper trail that supports this.

Now we have a situation where both J and myself are in touch with H, the grandson on the incestuous relationship, but, as you can imagine, neither of us feel comfortable about sharing this information with H.

So we are pondering the issue of “who’s secret is

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