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Originally Posted by RETIREDSFW
Thank you for sharing your story. I just found my half-sister. My father was married before he married my mother. He had one child who he never supported. Two weeks ago, thanks to ancestry.com and findagrave.com, i find the last name of his first wife with a short obit that gave me my half-sister's married name. She grew up in norfolk, va & i was in portsmouth, va. I called her & we talked for a long time. My siblings & i will be meeting with her on july 27 which is her birthday. We are all excited about this. She will be 75 & i am 68. My friends laugh when i say i spend my day looking for dead people, but sometimes you find a live one.
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I never dreamed that my simple, but oh so happy, story would elicit such responses. I am still basking in the happy satisfaction of having found my cousin and to be able to welcome her to her father's side of the family and to let her know that she is loved by all of us - people that she did not even know existed.
I am also so very happy for you to have found your half-sister. What a joy that must be. I love ancestry.com and findagrave.com, but do you know about familysearch.org and genealogybank.com. Genealogybank especially has so many wonderful newspapers that are indexed. I am highjacking my own thread by getting into this, but genealogybank was not only helpful in finding my cousin, but I have also read first hand accounts of my uncle being shot down in the South Sea Islands, hiding out for 6 weeks, then returning to this country and calling my grandfather only to find out that he had been reported missing and presumed dead all that time. I can only imagine my grandfather's shock at that phone call.
I am so so happy to have found my cousin before it was too late, just as I am so happy for you to have found your half-sister. July 27 will certainly be a very happy day for all of you. Please let us know how it goes.