My mom remarried and I was then adopted by her 2nd husband when I was 3 months old. Fast forward 58 years later and I decide to research my biological father's line (I learned of his name when I was 48 years old) with very little success as I had scant info to begin with. So I decide to "contact" him - not sure if he was even still living ... but he was ... 84 years old! He had been "waiting for me to contact him" all of these years! He had saved documents, baby pictures, etc. in hopes of meeting me one day. So with his help, genealogy became my obsession ... and I was even able to locate a picture of his mother - who he had never seen - he was 4 years old when she died and did not remember her. Imagine waiting for 84 years ... giving up on both dreams of seeing her beautiful face ... and meeting me ... and then I unexpectedly appear in his life to honor both of those dreams!

My biological dad said that he "could die a happy man now" ... meeting me and seeing what his biological mother looked like. Now, 10 years later, he just celebrated his 95th Birthday!

So that experience has motivated me to delve into all of my families history ... I am a fanatic about genealogy ... spending several hours a day on research. I am "retired" - so lots of time to call my own, as my husband is still working! But he is a great sport ... vacations spent traveling to cemeteries across the country ... I snap the photos - he does the gravestone rubbings! F-A-G has now replaced the need for those "vacations" - but I still enjoy the hunt ... weather a graveyard, court house, genealogy society ... anc. com ... or GOOGLE.

Primary lines of research are Flaherty / Darragh / Sears / Roddy / Brown / Kakuska, Glover / Fletcher / Croisant / Guenther, Moyer / Arner / Webb / Holcomb, Feldman / Levin / Weintraub / Melamut, Vavrin / Psencik / Ryan / Nelson.