Genealogy Chat

Louise, i am so happy for you, hope all goes well, Cant express my happiness for you, just waiting for the day my Two grandchildren knock or phone for me, may be awhile only 47. All the best and good luck for the future Shan

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Hi Louise Im so happy for you that you have finally been able to fill in the parts of your life that where missing....Have a great time and treasure the moments Hugs Carol ps: Yes there are real ANGELS here

How did it go?

Hi Louise, Will be thinking of you & wish you every happiness, I myself 10yrs ago found my Birth family I live in Australia they are all in UK, I found 7 brothers & sisters I did'nt know I had, I was also adopted & had very good loving adopted parents, both deceased now, but as I got older I always wondered where I came from etc, I never got to meet my Birth Mother as she had died, my father (I will proberly never find) only know a name & where he came from alot with the same name. Everything for me has turned out good only I have only seen my Birth family the once when I came back to UK to meet them all, my 2 sisters have been out to Oz, we are in touch though all the time, now I am doing a family tree on my Birth side, very interesting & finding out all sorts of things with the family. Regards Rita x

Have a wonderful day and I hope it's the start of a great future for you. I so envy you. I traced mine 18 years ago but it took another 12 years of waiting till she relented and made contact. I'm 53 now and still want to meet her and my siblings but they live in Australia and America. Enjoy every moment.

I hope you have a wonderful time Louise.... I was contacted out of the blue by my birth sister in February and we have now met up a few times. Our Birth mother died in 1995 so we havent been fortunate enough to have met her. Its been a wonderful experience and my mum and dad have both been extremely supportive of the situation. It must be every adoptive parents nightmare to think the child they have brought up as their own may at some point in their lives go off and want to meet Birth family. I think it shows what a very rare breed they are to be able to encourage and support us adoptees in our quest to find that missing piece of jigsaw! I too can now go to the doctors and know information without having to say I dont know to everything! (I had to laff at that comment cos its bugged me for years!) Have a great time with your new found family and please report back to us all. Incidentally i'm out with my sister and her family this weekend too!! Jill x

Louise, I am so glad you have said that about your Mother. Shall be thinking of you all. Joy

thankyou for all your good lucks im going to need them all, so glad you bought up the dont forget the camera i hadnt even thought of it,and joy youve no need to worry about my adoptive mother feeling rejected because shes the most important person in my life she IS my MOTHER and it feels the most unnatural thing to call her my adoptive mother if that makes sense, they should change all that and adoptive parents should be your mum and dad and birth parents should be called. . well i dont know but something else,speak to you all sunday night to let you know how things went

I hope you have a lovely time meeting your family.We found out that my husband has a half brother and several cousins he didn`t know about but they don`t want to meet up. His parents divorced 50 years ago and that`s the reason! Rosalyn

Have a great time I will be thinking of you.

Mine didn't want to know either but I perserved in looking on behalf of the other children and came across her accidently when checking out the first address off one of 3 lists, shortest 22, next 57 and the other over 200. Because it wasn't expected and no-one had time to get worked up about it it was ok and we're still in touch (occasionally) and so are others in Australia. She was also persuaded to meet one of her sisters she hadn't seen for many years which was a bonus for our searching. You may find that she will ask her sister/neice how it went (if they are still speaking after this) and if its meant it will happen and you will meet your mum. She could be cautious as she doesn't know what you want from her but hopefully if she doesn't feel threatened she'll come round. Just take it slowly but its nice to just fill in all the gaps you never had answers for before. Yes I agree my adoptive parents are the people who brought me up, moulded me into the person I am. They were MY PARENTS and I wouldn't do anything to upset them which is why its taken so many years to complete my task of finding my roots, sadly too late to see my birth father. I wish you luck and hope everything goes well all around.

I wish you and yours well. If your adoptive parents are still alive, please remember how much they must have loved you to have specially chosen you and brought you up. I hope they won't feel rejected. Joy

Hi Louise, I'm over the moon for you. Good luck on Sunday. Your Mums sister is a special lady ( like my Aunty ), so make the most of being with her and her family and forget the rest ! Don't forget to take your camera ! ;-) I'll be thinking of you ... and don't be too nervous ! Elaine :-)

That's brilliant Louise, so happy for you. Perhaps the reminders of a difficult time are just too much for your mum but as her sister was the one who cared for you in those first months she must be really looking forward to seeing you now. Enjoy every minute of your meeting Judith

Hope you have a lovely reunion Louise and maybe your birth mum will come round when she knows you have met the rest of the family. Good Luck. Lynne

hi louise..just read your thread..i wish you luck with the meeting,hope it all goes well for you and you find all you need to know.xx

I would like to thank all those who have helped me in my long quest.With your help and the help of one special lady i have finally made contact with my birth relatives and this sunday i am off to meet them. Unfortunatly for my birth mother she will not be having the pleasure of meeting me because she doesnt want to know (a rejection sense of humor) but i will be having the pleasure of meeting her sister and husband, who took me in for the first 6 months of my life before i was adopted, their 2 children and their 2 grandchildren. I am very lucky to be meeting the sister as she is very very ill with m.s not only now will i get to meet them all but i can now fill in the doctors forms propably instead of saying i dont know im adopted. To all those out there who are looking for any living relative, keep at it cause your guardian angels will turn up sooner or later mine did,they are just busy at the min helping someone else but the que is going down because im now of it, SO A BIG THANKYOU ANGELS louise X X X X X