From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(I'm part of a branch of a family that was "found" in the past few years. Got a call right after a Super Bowl, from my father's second cousin. Guy lives in Gonzales. Never met him yet, but we e-mail a lot. I got my favorite cousin in touch with him last year, and she's very happy about that.)
My family was recently "found" as well. It turns out my grandfather's brother, Anthony, had a fling with a woman while stationed in Europe as WWII ended. He was then shipped home, apparently never learning she had gotten pregnant by him. The woman then moved to Canada, where she met and married someone else, who raised the baby girl, Julie, as his, along with several children he did father. Only when the woman was on her death bed, (when Julie was in her late 50's!) did she reveal to Julie that her 'father' actually wasn't her biological parent, and who her father really was, along with a few old photos of him.
It took Julie a while, but she finally managed to track our family down. Unfortunately, her father, my Uncle Tony, had died a number of years earlier, and neither of his two children she reached wanted anything to do with her (mostly I guess they both had some other issues going on and didn't want to deal with her). But Julie stuck with it and with more research, she tracked down my mother and a few other relatives, who were fascinated by the story and much more welcoming. Just 2 weeks ago, Julie came down to NJ for my cousin's wedding, so I got to meet her, 2 of her daughters, and her grandaughter. Very fun.
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