too much to put in chat. I told you guys some of this.... those shows where they reunite lost relatives... i usually am like "Whatever thats dramatized"
So last fall, mom found out she was adopted. ONLY because she randomly told my Uncle "I sent my dna kit to ancestry" My uncle, getting old and senile now(hes my favorite human being) blurts out "why would you do that, you know you were adopted, right?"
mom, shes like "uhhhhh nope"
he couldn't(or wouldn't) tell her much) guess he kept the secret over a carton of smokes. for 70 years.
She sent her story to the show "long lost family" (you should watch this its fascinating, and hosted by the guy from "overhaulin" LOL) and they were talking to her about possibly putting her on there, but cases that are 70 years old, are WAAAAAY tough, and to not expect much. then didnt hear back.
well a while ago, she got back her results, and got a ton of partial matches. she got in contact with someone that was ONLY a 1/1000 shot of being a first cousin. she messaged her... thought nothing of it... they chatted. Not much else. Last week, she gets a message from that same lady... "so I was talking to my Mom, who reminded me her sister gave 3 kids up for adoption" I didn't know. The girl she was talking to, was, indeed her genetic first cousin! She sent her a picture of her mom. CREEPY looks just like her.
Apparently. She had been married, had two kids. Then Husband(a sailor AND from Iowa, also weird coincidences) died at Pearl Harbor. She moved to Washington to work in shipyards....and she had a little "fun" and popped out 3 more kids all 3 given up. the two living half sisters(original not adopted) live in Alberta I think. Then she Had mom in San Fran (sounds like she moved there to make for the purpose of the adoption) In montana she had another kid, and put him up as well. He died of cancer at 33, in the 1970's. And the 1st child she had in montana, We found out last night... that mofo lives 20 minutes from us! the whole time, her half brother. 2 yrs older than her. Lived in the town she worked in, my sister lives in, dad worked in...Wife works in...we go to every day basically, for the whole 30 years since we left Cali and came here..
Grew up with adopted family...then He moved here with BNSF railroad from Montana. (with a LOT of other folks around here I know who did that too) her other sisters have been looking for the 3 adopted kids, and had only found HIM recently!
Anyways..... Shes going to meet him for lunch today!
crazy $hit. lot of weirdness of moms family making sense all of a sudden. her sister so much older than her.... weird names on birth cert. I just never felt right with them.. not like I knew this was the case or anything.... but my grandma was weird as ferk. Out in cali, She lived with us, we took care of her til she died-like 5 years. That whole time, she was adopted, and she Never said a word. CRAZY. My aunt, 14 years older than mom(we theorized she might actually be the mom, and hiding it, happily not the case) she was NUTS....
but I do feel good.... there's some severe batshit craziness in that adopted Cali fam. that, is NOT in my blood
COusin, shes a "lay down on the road to protest" hippie type. her sister, holed up hermit, wont talk to anyone. One brother dead of drugs. other brother in his 60's cosplays a viking, and knocked up a 22 year old girl. Other sister, drug addict, born again christian. Who, I might add,my parents let watch me after school. She made me take 2 baths a day. because "Cleanliness is next to godliness" I told my mom about that later as an adult. She flipped the ferk out doesn't talk to her now. Now i'm super pissed, that she wasn't even "family"
grandma spanked me all the time. and she wasnt my grandma
anyways cool things happening. small world. wish my dad was still around to see this shit. hed be packing us all up in the van and going to Montana.
sorry, long post.
