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...