Dear Carmen, As I said earlier, no reason to be embarrassed--your story was touching and very interesting! You were concerned as to the outcome of your search and did you really want to go ahead. Seems that in addition to being glad you proceeded you got the added bonus of a half sister. You must write all this up for your family history and your descendants. What a wonderful story! Just think how interesting you would have thought this story had it happened to, say, your great grandmother. But it happened to you! Write it all down for posterity! Alice ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.