What would you do?

[Scythe13]

Everyone else I havent really seen since maybe 1998. I could easily walk past them in the street and potentially not know they were my relatives unless they said.

That for me is a major factor. If they are relatives that I don't know, then we are only joined by someone else a distance back. They are not friends, they are not really 'family'. This definition of family is not the usual blood relations type. Ask any biker who their family is. Ask any rock climber who their family is. Those that you are close to, to the point you would die for each other.......that is my view of family.