Discovering BT and his family (Marjory's second son) in 1997 was great. My husband (MSH) had a brother, and all was well. But things changed in 2018, after we both took DNA tests. First we did the 23&Me test, followed a year later by the AncestryDNA test.
Each test gives you a DNA match list - all those people who have taken a DNA test and with whom you have shared DNA. At the top of MSH's match list was a guy who shared enough DNA that he was suggested as a "close family -1st cousin" match.
It took a few days, but finally I gathered up enough courage to email the guy (PA) thru the AncestryDNA system. He responded very quickly and we carried on a conversation for a couple of days. He told me that he had been born in Montana and placed with an adoptive family on the day he was born. Before she passed, his adoptive mom (a "saint" in his words) had told him the name of his birth mother. Turned out PA and BT and MSH are half-brothers!
We spent a week earlier this summer in Maine visiting PA and his wife and daughter. Wonderful family, and they were fabulous hosts and tour guides.
Marjory's three boys!
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