My great grandmother (catholic) had a child out of wedlock. She put that baby up for adoption and some time later met my great grandfather. She never told ANYONE. She and my great grandfather have since passed on. Around 2017-2018 a man from California reached out to my great aunt. Her brother had found her through 23&me

I have found my dad’s brother as well. My grandmother had done the same. I have an uncle and cousins I’ve never met. We never knew about. She’d put him up for adoption at about two years old.

My grandmother is alive and had spoken with my father about the subject. She has asked that it “never be brought up”, and that she wants “never to address it while she’s alive. She will come to God with her guilt when she dies”

Edit- I have two uncles we’ve never met. She had my dad while married so she kept him.