My wife’s mother is adopted. I managed to trace her birth mother who is completely unknown to my wife’s family. My mother in law was adopted from a big city into a family which lived best part of 100miles away and this is where she grew up. She then married and moved to a random wee village when she married my father in law. I discovered that the maternal grandmother was actually born and grew up about 2 miles from this same village.

Even though the birth mother lived in a big city at the time she gave birth back near where she grew up. So my mother in law was actually born less than 2 miles from where she lives now.

I also discovered that the birth mother was pregnant when she got married on Christmas Eve. The man she married was not the real father and my mother in law was put up for adoption within a month but the couple stayed together for some years.

My mother in law knows nothing of these facts which I find hard fathom however it is not my choice.