Hi....I am Cynthia Marie Drayer, biological child of Frank Edgar and Jorene Mary (Minor/Schuckman) Woolman. My mother was 14 and Frank was 21. My father was not in my life and he died before I could meet him. However, he had 3 wives, in addition to my mother. He had 10 children. I was adopted at the age of 2 by Jesse Lydon ("Lyn") and Aline Helen (Causkey/Harrington) Drayer. My bio. mother relocated me in 1977 when I was 24. It turned out that she was adopted as well, but I eventually located her birth certificate. (original last name was Minor through her mother/Siefert through her father, and adopted name was Schuckman).
My adopted mother, Aline Helen (Causkey) Harrington indicates the clan name, Causkey, for the Harrington line in County Cork, Ireland. It is not a previous marriage name.
My mother described my father as having red hair, in the army, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, blue eyes and freckles. Through Ancestry DNA, after my mother's death, I was connected to a first cousin on my father's side. Thus began my genealogical research on my biological mother and father. I had already conducted a data base for my adopted family lines.
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