[quote=blackcat]He might like genealogy but our other kid is not genetically related and we have no access to information for her, so it might cause bad feelings on her part. We don't even have ethnicity info, we just know she is caucasian. So I'm trying to avoid going there.
FWIW, we have this same situation in our family... and much to my surprise my dd who has no information and most likely never will.. became extremely interested in our family's genealogy. We had purposely avoided it, but she was assigned one of those school projects in early elementary that made me want to have a nice long passionate chat with the teacher about how there are kids in her classroom that have no idea about family history... but instead my dd leapt into it with excitement and informed me she had no issues with it.... so... it's all so individual.. some people will be bothered by it and not want to think about it, other kids just roll with it.
The one thing that has been really interesting for my dds, and might be interesting to your dd and ds as well... but unfortunately costs $... is family history DNA testing. My other dd isn't really interested at all in my family history (she also has no genetic ties to us and no knowledge of her family history)... but both dds have been fascinated by seeing the results of the testing. To be honest, their results don't make a lot of sense to me. I had my own tested just out of curiosity, and it came up a bit strange too... but it's all made for fascinating conversations!
polarbear
ps - the one thing about my dd who is into researching my family history - she sees it as more of a history project than a project with personal connections.
