Great story Thanks for sharing Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 11, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Joyce Presnall via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I almost left out my BIGGEST success. Get the tissues ready ladies :-) > > I was able to find my adopted husbands birth sister through ancestry.com > message boards. > > It took 10 years to get a response to the message I had posted asking for > info about his mother (his adoption papers had his birth mothers name on it > luckily--we have not been so luck with his birth father I am afraid as THAT > name appeared to be false) > > Anyway 10 years after posting the message board a lady responded with "that > is my mother what do you want to know?" > > We took our conversation private of course, and she told me she had been > looking for him for 20 years, BUT she had been looking under his birth name > so naturally show would not have found him that way. > > We had private DNA testing done because ancestry DNA was not good enough to > find out what we needed to--while we were 99% sure we had indeed found his > birth sister, we wanted to be 100% sure. > > 6 months later I surprised my hubby for Christmas and flew his new found > sister down to meet him. IT was amazing how many ways they were alike--and > she told us of all the years his mother regretted putting him up for > adoption btu the sister was very ill and she could not afford to keep him. > > He found out that every year around his birth date she became depressed and > every Christmas also (adoption was finalized 2 weeks before X-mas) so he > was finally able to shake off all the anger he felt and he realized that > his mother TRULY loved him and did not want to give him up for adoption but > had no choice. > > This resolved MANY issues that had tormented him his entire life so THIS IS > my GREATEST success story... > > Joyce > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Joyce Presnall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> WOW I have had so many successes it is hard to know where to start :-) >> >> >> -- > Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, > Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, > Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, > Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, > Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, > Norton, Gerard, and many more... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message