Photography
Related: About this forumI have to share something with my friends here that has nothing to do with photography,
but I'm just so excited about this and my husband is already in bed asleep.
I might have mentioned at some time that my mother was killed in a car wreck when I was 8 and that after my father remarried, I had completely lost my maternal family. This has been bugging me for a while, not knowing my heritage, so I took the Ancestry DNA test, and tonight I've been contacted by a first cousin on my mother's side who I didn't even know existed, since she was born in 1960, long after I had lost touch. She is an artist, and look at her - she's beautiful. I'm kind of choked up.
She has been working on the family tree and will send it to me. I'm kind of blown away by how this is affecting me.
mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)I hope you get great satisfaction--and fun--from getting to know your cousin and discovering relatives on your maternal side.
It seems that the older we get, the more the family connections mean to us. I pestered my dad--for years--to send me a copy
of the family tree on his side that an aunt of his in Canada had put together. When he finally did, it burned up in our house fire
several years after he died. I wish that I now had it, because I'd like to try to track down Canadian relatives.
Your cousin looks like someone who would be fun to know!
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)I can see the resemblance.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)Family is what connects us and when we're missing part of it, then we aren't complete. How wonderful that you and your cousin have reconnected!
And I see that you both have artistic tendencies! That's great.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)she's "feeling the Bern" in Florida! This is too good. She commented on my FB page under my picture with the Bernie sign.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)I hope you get to meet her.
elleng
(131,107 posts)I almost understand, been somewhat out of touch with my maternal-side of the family as my mother passed when I was 8 too, Dad wisely remarried (my adopted family's great,) we moved (just to NYC suburb,) but we lost touch. Kind of in touch with some now, but not the same as having been in touch throughout.
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Elessiana
(62 posts)I congratulate you can contact your cousin. I think its really a good news for you. By looking at your post, it also brought back my memories.
My mother died in a disease when I was 4 years old, although my father remarried later. I've contacted all of relatives on my mother's side. when I saw these cousins, I will see similarities with my mother in their looks, therefore, my heart will have a little comfort, it will reduce some of my pain. I heard you found out your cousin, so I'm very happy, maybe you won't feel too lonely.
CC
(8,039 posts)Hope you connect with more relatives too.
You can download your DNA results from Ancestry and upload it to GED Match. And brief explanation is here http://www.yourdnaguide.com/upload-to-gedmatch/ It might give you more connections. I just found out about it a couple weeks ago so still confused in there but learning. My cousin and I connected with a Campbell that is related though she is having a hard time finding info on her great great grand so she suggested it as a way for all of us.
Oh and there is this group too http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1156
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)especially since it was lost to you until now. Good luck finding more relatives from that side of your family.
2naSalit
(86,780 posts)I love it when life deals out a handful of Aces.