[or-roots] finding siblings

[Steve & Ronda Howard]

Hi Les and everyone,
We always knew that my husband's two oldest brothers had a different Dad.
It was one of those things I pursued when the genealogy bug bit me and I
became interested in genealogy.  Over and over again I would look--nothing
new.  One day for the umpteenth time I looked again and there was a new
family tree with my Mother-in-Law's name attached to her first husband.
Evidently he married 4 times.  I contacted a man who turned out to be a
cousin of my two oldest brother-in-laws.  The short story is that from that
contact my two wonderful brother-in-laws found two half siblings and an
uncle and a bunch of cousins.  A new half sister turned up in December.
They are thrilled.  They have traveled around the country meeting new
family.   It is exciting.  I know there is often pain involved.  Their Dad
left when they were 5 and 3.  Even now sixty some years later there is still
pain there.  But sixty years after their Dad left we found siblings and it
did much to mend a hole in their hearts.  

Happy New Year!
Ronda


-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
Chapman
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:57 PM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: [or-roots] Exercise in futility

I think I have talkeda bout this before, but ran across this from a cousin
of my wife and thought I would throw it out there in case someone connected
to the other side of this story is looking for information.

I have sort of hidden some of the identities here though anyone who knows me
can certainly fill in the blanks

Les C

Anyway it seems to me that you spend more time on the computer than just
your average Joe.  I am not real good at finding a lost brother or whoever
but with the information mom has given me, I would think this is a case for
one of those TV talk shows.  You may already have this information and I don
't know that but I can tell you what mom said to me.

The baby was born in the Toledo  Hospital in the fall of 1949.  Mom said
your mother-in-law went into the hospital under the name of Arlene Evans,
that was the "other woman's" name and her nickname was "Stoney".  His name
was George Evans and his nickname was "Curley".  Mom said she didn't know if
they were married  but had her doubts.  The father passed away a few years
later, about the time this George Evans (Jr?) was some-where around the age
of two years old.  Mom knew that Arlene (Stoney) had breast cancer and knew
she had one removed but thinks that was quite a few years later.

I'm sure if you sat down with mom and asked her questions, she could
probably give you a lot more information.  But this is all I got in one
setting of maybe a half hour.

Everybody is entitled to think what they want, but me personally, I would do
every thing I could to try and find him.  You guys should not have been the
ones to miss out in knowing this brother.  Maybe your mother-in-law did make
a mistake (as is how she is thinking) but as we all know, we do what we do,
day after day, good, bad or other-wise, but it is impossible to take a day
and think you can do it over just because you made a mistake in it.

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The point here is that if this Mr. Evans (or whatever name he might be going
by now, it sort of sounds like he might have ended up an orphan from a
father and mother that he never knew was not his birth mother) is out there
he has two living half brothers and a half sister he probably has no idea
exist and they would like to meet him.

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