Re: I have a new cousin!
Originally Posted by
rcs60h
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I had a similar experience while trying to do my family tree, the connection was a complete fluke, in that I came across a 5 year old post requesting details of a family that lived at a particular address which was where my long dead grandparents had lived. Anyway, it turned out that an aunt of mine in the 1940's had had 2 baby daughters adopted. None of my family from that generation were still alive to ask about it but no family members of my generation knew anything of this happening.
Both I and the possible cousins gave each other details that could confirm the relationship, after which we arranged to meet and exchange some life details and on meeting we could see family facial connections as well. We are still in touch.
That's great. I'm told that being adopted makes a person feel a bit incomplete unless they can trace their birth parents - which fortunately many do nowadays.