WOW Got to share

[lovejoy]

I have got to share this !! I am just so excited. Years ago I had posted a message on ancestory.com looking for information on my father. I know nothing about him except his name. I discovered about 6 years ago that he was deceased. I was devastated to put it mildly. I have searched for better than 30 years for family and had simply given up. Thought his family had died out.
I open my email last night, and someone emailed me that they knew of him. I responded immediately and have found out I have family !!! Come to find out, this gal that emailed me, her mother and my father were siblings !!! And she didn't even know her mother had a brother ! But I have documentation and can prove that they were ! How wild is that. Of course we have been burning up the net talking back and forth, shes in Ca and I'm in Kansas, shes 4 years older than I, but I have family. One part of my journey is over and I pray that another has started. I am thanking God every minute, this has been something that I have searched for most of my life !!
Prayers really do work and miracles really do happen !!

 

[Nancy]

That's so exciting! Congratulations. It will be fun and interesting to learn about your found family.

 

[Eva]

You sound really happy and I am happy for you and I hope you get to meet together and learn about one another. Keep us posted.

Miracles do happen indeed

 

[Wise]

I'm happy to hear your good news. Best wishes for you and your newly found family!

 

[netmiff]

I am happy for you that you have found family and fulfilled one of your life-long goals. Hope this works out for all of you!

The man across the road was adopted as a child, and he has recently found a whole host of siblings and half-siblings, and most of them get along really well. One of his brothers (or half-broithers) lives only about 2 blocks away, and they never knew until recently that the other even existed!

 

[Ross]

I'm so happy for you! I've been on that same quest and have gotten answers to everything except who my real father was. For some reason, my bio mom, grandma and all, lied to me or simply evaded the question altogether. I spent years running down dead links. My conclusion is, that my real father is the same as my brother and sisters (I was adopted by my grandmother and the others spent their lives in foster homes) had. My brother and I almost look like twins but he's ten years older.

 

[Mary]

Congratulations! It's amazing what life brings us when we least expect it.

 

[marie]

You sound very excited. Congratulations and good luck

 

[Freddie]

WOW - this is exciting........good for you.
Best wishes that everything works out for you and you find the answers you are seeking.

 

[DebbyA]

That's so exciting! Thanks for posting this story.

Debby ("regular" greyhound owner)

 

[Lisa in Katy]

Congratulations and good luck.

When my grandmother died, a man in his 60s showed up at her funeral with papers showing that she had given him up for adoption. No one in our family ever knew he existed, but he had been looking for my grandmother for a long time, but didn't have her married name. Her obituary was printed with her full name, and being an unusual first name, he knew he had finally found her. My aunt, who was 10 years older than my dad, and would have been 2 when this man was born, was full siblings with this new found brother. He was given up for adoption right around the start of the Great Depression after my grandmother's first husband left for a job in another state and was never heard from again. He and my aunt had both (separately) looked for their father throughout the years without success. My father had a hard time accepting it because he felt that if his mother had wanted him to know about this half brother, she would have told him. My aunt and new uncle have since died, but they were able to get to know each other in their later years.

 

[escargome]

Congratulations!. It is in fact a wonderful thing when we find family who we have searched for for years. I found my husband's half brother in the same manner.

 

[WayneGM]

Very exciting news. Congratulations! best wishes to both of you and your new found family.

 

[Glenda]

Congratluations. I have a half brother somewhere that is two years younger than me. I've researched for years and finally gave up. It just came to a dead end. All my family is dead so there is really no one to ask questions. I did accidentally find a woman that had baby sat me when I was a baby and she knew I had a brother but didn't know what happened to him. My mother moved away when she was pregnant with him. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be.

 

[njean]

I am so excited for you too! How wonderful that you came across a long, lost family member! I hope that you get to meet in person soon & start catching up on some of those lost years!

And yes, prayers do work & miracles do happen!!

 

[lovejoy]

Thank you for all the good thoughts. We are still burning up the net with emails. Will talk to each other this weekend. I'm a little anxious about it, don't want to break down and blubber like a baby. But very emotional for me. She sounds like a wonderful person so far.

 

[hensylee]

how exciting for you to find roots finally. Probably nobody can understand how great and personal this is to you, but we are 'rooting' you on and hope your wishes are truly fulfilled now that you have a path to follow. Please keep us posted.