Being made smaller & smaller everyday with technology evolving by the minute. 1929 Prince Edward Island on the East Coast of Canada. Very young, unwed couple have a new baby girl. Without means to support the child, the parents give her up to a Catholic orphanage here in Saint John. She stays until she's about 18 months & is adopted by a couple from Bathurst, NB. Has lived a full & happy life, still going strong, however, did not marry or have any children. Turns 90 in April. 1931 Prince Edward Island on the East Coast of Canada. SAME very young, unwed couple have another new baby girl. Without means to support the child, the parents give her up to a Catholic orphanage here is Saint John. She stays until she's about 6 months & is taken back to the Island by her maternal grandparents. Raised in a house of 10 brothers & sisters who were really her aunts & uncles ! Marries & has 3 children, still going strong. Turns 88 in July. 2018 Saint John NB on the East Coast of Canada 1929 has a "near" relative based on the Ancestry DNA program. 1931 has a daughter with a near relative on the same site. Daughter coaxes 1931 to submit a DNA sample & see where the bottle stops spinning. Bingo! 1929 & 1931 are both direct matches & long lost sisters neither ever knew existed. They met shortly after for the first time after spending most of their lives less than a 4hr. drive from each other, A stunning likeness is there, as are their stories. Lots of stories to tell ! Each heard stories as children, each always thought.....? This year I have a "NEW" aunt to buy a Christmas card for & she has a new favorite nephew! HA! The 1931 lady is my Mother. The 1929 lady is my new Aunt. Merry Christmas to everyone here & enjoy the Holidays! Steve C
I am happy for all of you. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy at that. Merry Christmas ans Happy New Year to you all. UticaGeoff
Wow Steve thats gotta be one of the coolest things ive ever hear on this site. Im glad your Aunt has found her family.
M wife just said 'that's a nice story' while I'm all choked up.Beautiful story,fantastic ending. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you Steve and your family.Bruno.and Family.
Here's an article in the news just after they met. Just learned my Mother's Grandparents loaded up the horse & wagon the day they were told about a grandchild at the orphanage in Saint John. Travelling there today with these new-fangled autos on the highway takes 4 hours on a good day. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dna-test-sisters-new-brunswick-1.4904225
Wonderful story. Just would have been even better had they met a lot sooner. Only God knows why they met at this time in their lives. I was adopted as well. I knew that as a child. What I didn't know, until I was about 50, was that I had 6 Sisters and 10 Brothers. Long story for another time............
