I am too excited to sleep!
12-01-2013, 11:41 AM
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What a wonderful story. I'm so happy for all of you. My mom had done the research for both her side of our family and for my dad's side. We've met several "new" relatives and are so happy to find them. Now I want to do my children's paternal side as there is only one sibling of their dad's left and no grandparents. Now to make sure I fit it in while it's still possible. I don't want this to be another of those "I wish I'd just........ " Joyce in DE
12-02-2013, 10:53 AM
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Kathy, if you know the state where you were born, couldn't you get the original birth certificate copy??? All three of my children are adopted plus I have an adopted grandson. When my daughter was about to be married, she wanted to know more about her background and hired a professional researcher who found her birth family within two months. They are out there and it's not that expensive to hire someone.
12-02-2013, 11:54 AM
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Wonderful story - especially at the holidays.
Do be very cautious, though, because not everyone is coming from a good place, or even the same place, when it comes to family, and there may be a hundred good reasons why this is all a big surprise to your family. Not all may be happy ones.
Let us know how you do
Do be very cautious, though, because not everyone is coming from a good place, or even the same place, when it comes to family, and there may be a hundred good reasons why this is all a big surprise to your family. Not all may be happy ones.
Let us know how you do
09-13-2016, 05:39 PM
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We have met, and he is definitely family. Looks like the Killgore bunch, with just enough of his mother's face to be convincing. DNA says we are really family. Yippee! We have another cousin. We are hoping to have a cousin reunion next summer so we can all meet. Thanks for all the kind wishes.
09-14-2016, 02:12 AM
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This has been an interesting thread to read. Glad this has been such a positive experience for you and your family.
My mother remarried when I was about 6. I was adopted by her new husband. No one on my mother's side of the family would speak much about my birth father. Just bits and pieces here and there from my grandmother. My mother would never speak about the situation - to the point where my half-siblings had no clue of her first marriage until one of them was about to be married. My adoptive father recently passed away as well. I finally got documentation of things that I suspected to be true after some off/on internet research on my own. Only recently did I contact my two half-sisters from my birth father. I got an initial receptive email in response from one; nothing from the other yet. Those 2 are estranged so not sure if I have correct contact info for the other. I replied to the email I had received but so far (several weeks now) no response. Not sure if my reply went into internet netherworld; she's busy; I said something offensive (certainly didn't think so and definitely not intended) or what. Not sure, really, how to proceed at this point.
My mother remarried when I was about 6. I was adopted by her new husband. No one on my mother's side of the family would speak much about my birth father. Just bits and pieces here and there from my grandmother. My mother would never speak about the situation - to the point where my half-siblings had no clue of her first marriage until one of them was about to be married. My adoptive father recently passed away as well. I finally got documentation of things that I suspected to be true after some off/on internet research on my own. Only recently did I contact my two half-sisters from my birth father. I got an initial receptive email in response from one; nothing from the other yet. Those 2 are estranged so not sure if I have correct contact info for the other. I replied to the email I had received but so far (several weeks now) no response. Not sure if my reply went into internet netherworld; she's busy; I said something offensive (certainly didn't think so and definitely not intended) or what. Not sure, really, how to proceed at this point.
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