My Dad, Robert Bishop (1930 - 1997) was adopted by Wilton Homer Bishop (of Howard County, Indiana, 1890 - 1945), who was a great grandchild of William and Nancy Freel. Well, I have taken the DNA test and have returned at least 5 genetic matches going back to Daniel O'Friel and the Jameson clans, presumably making my Dad a Bishop after all. I was wondering if any Bishops in this line have taken the DNA test and if we are a match? I am awaiting my brother's yDNA test through FTDNA for further confirmation.

My adoptive grandfather had no other known children. HIS father, William Henry Bishop of Howard Indiana had no other sons and a daughter who had no children. So, if my DNA math is correct, I will not find a closer common ancestor than a third cousin/or someone from my adoptive second great grandfather's line, Ira Bishop (who moved from Maryland to Ohio).

Rumor has it that my dad was his father's son, a product of an affair and that his dad convinced his wife, my adoptive grandmother and the only grandparent I've ever known, to raise the child as her own after 10 years of a childless marriage. I am trying to substaniate this claim as it appears to me more than less likely at this point.

We have determined his birth mother was unmarried, and is not a Bishop, but a Parker, so unless my DNA-fu is off, if my brother's test comes back with a Bishop match it is likely that Grampa really was Grampa after all.

Any cousins out there I can connect with? Anyone with more understanding of DNA than myself who'd like to comment? Looking for my Dad's birth geneaology - my holy grail.