ArmyGuy45
08-31-2013, 12:52 PM
So to give you a little back story on my family, my grandmother on my dads side was adopted and she didnt find out she was adopted until she was getting married and her birth certificate listed her biological father and not her father she knew. When my grandmother approached her mother about the issue she was told very little information and to 'drop the issue'. My grandmother her entire life has always wondered if she had any half brothers or sisters but wasnt allowed to do the research since her mom didnt allow it.
My mom was doing some research to complete the family tree as far back as we could get it and discovered that my grandmother was adopted and asked her about it. My grandmother respond with little information since she didnt have any so my mom went to her grandmother-in-law to get some details. Her response was do not research this anymore and its none of your business. So she dropped the issue.
Fast forward to a about 2 weeks ago when I started to put our family tree on ancestry.com I also discovered the adoption and when I approached my mom about it she told to drop it since the drama it caused when she was doing the research. MrsArmyGuy45 told me that I should email my grandmother and just give her the little information I had discovered to see if she would like to know. The response I got from my grandmother almost put me in tears. She was so happy to read the email I sent her and asked if I had anymore information.
To make a long story short. Through countless hours of research and phone calls, my grandmother doesnt have anymore brothers or sisters from her biological father but she does have plenty of aunts and uncles, and those aunts and uncles have plenty of kids. Turns out that of of those kids, one lives in Gilbert, AZ (my grandmother lives near Payson, AZ). So through a combination of ancestry.com, white pages, facebook and google we were able to get a name, location, work location but no home phone number (probably private). Like the stalkers we are we called her at work and gave her our story. Funny part is this cousin of my grandmother was going through some old photographs and found one of her uncle (my grandmothers father) holding a very young little girl and no one in her family knew who it was. We have exchanged information and the cousin is going to verify the family tree and scanned pictures we have sent her to make sure it is a true family connection (though the parents of the biological father matches the cousin grandparents so I am sure this is a match).
My grandmother is practically jumping out of her skin knowing that she lived 3 hours away from her biological cousin and she never knew about it. I cant wait to close the loop and meet family I have never know about.
My mom was doing some research to complete the family tree as far back as we could get it and discovered that my grandmother was adopted and asked her about it. My grandmother respond with little information since she didnt have any so my mom went to her grandmother-in-law to get some details. Her response was do not research this anymore and its none of your business. So she dropped the issue.
Fast forward to a about 2 weeks ago when I started to put our family tree on ancestry.com I also discovered the adoption and when I approached my mom about it she told to drop it since the drama it caused when she was doing the research. MrsArmyGuy45 told me that I should email my grandmother and just give her the little information I had discovered to see if she would like to know. The response I got from my grandmother almost put me in tears. She was so happy to read the email I sent her and asked if I had anymore information.
To make a long story short. Through countless hours of research and phone calls, my grandmother doesnt have anymore brothers or sisters from her biological father but she does have plenty of aunts and uncles, and those aunts and uncles have plenty of kids. Turns out that of of those kids, one lives in Gilbert, AZ (my grandmother lives near Payson, AZ). So through a combination of ancestry.com, white pages, facebook and google we were able to get a name, location, work location but no home phone number (probably private). Like the stalkers we are we called her at work and gave her our story. Funny part is this cousin of my grandmother was going through some old photographs and found one of her uncle (my grandmothers father) holding a very young little girl and no one in her family knew who it was. We have exchanged information and the cousin is going to verify the family tree and scanned pictures we have sent her to make sure it is a true family connection (though the parents of the biological father matches the cousin grandparents so I am sure this is a match).
My grandmother is practically jumping out of her skin knowing that she lived 3 hours away from her biological cousin and she never knew about it. I cant wait to close the loop and meet family I have never know about.