My grandfather was adopted

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Got word from my sister that our cousin told her our maternal grandfather was adopted. (my sister believes it to be "legit" info)
I feel empty and lost. Why people lie to their family is something I don't understand. My mother had a brother who shot himself to end it all, but she always said it was an accident while cleaning his gun.
My father dispelled that myth once quite convincingly.

My mother must have known about her father being adopted, she was quite close to her sister who was the mother of the informing cousin.
All the tales from her of us being German/French (her mother was pure blood Irish, born over there) with a possibility of Jew blood (the name was Keim) are out the window now.

I've never told my kids any tales I knew to be untrue....
Damn! I might be English or something, I'm not gonna get any sleep tonight.