Hi Sandy..... how intrigueing... happy,... sad... and confusing... for this tired brain of mine tonight.

 

I can't get all the generation titles straight, even on paper.

 

I'm assuming your "Nana" refers to your mother's mother... and is short for Grandmother?  After that, I lose the lineage...

 

I'm so glad you shared this with us.  Things were so different back then about how those kind of situations were handled.   There have been several movies of this kind of thing I'm sure.   I do think it is so sad not to have known before they died... so that you each could have enjoyed the true relationships between each other.   My grandparents were all gone before I was even born... so it is awesome to me when others get to have relationships with their great-grandparents and on.  

 

I read in todays paper that a local man, age 44,  was recently reunited with his mother and siblings.   His dad had kidnapped him from her at age 3 and was told they were dead.   She had been looking for him all these years.. and found him through the internet recently.   The man had found out his true last name several years before, and had it changed back.

 

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