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Subject: Re: [BLACK-L] My good news (and word of the week!)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:35:59 EST

In a message dated 1/D/YY 12:13:49 PM PDT, writes:

<< If you have a similar story of inspiration, please post it to
the list, maybe this will help give some people in similar situations
some renewed hope! >>

Hello...

Here is my story:

While working on filling in information on my BLACK lines, I contacted
relatives asking them for their family information. As I was talking to one
relative regarding this, he told me a secret. He told me that almost three
years earlier that a man had come to my sister (who is my nephew's mother) and
told her that he was my brother, Russell's illegitimate son. The mother of
this man had never told my brother that she was pregnant. Therefore, no one
is my family knew this child existed. Unfortunately, my brother died in 1971
at the age of 36 as a result of a plane crash in his own plane.

At the time that the child of my deceased brother came to my sister looking
for his father, my mother was in the hospital deathly ill and as a result my
father was put in a rest home because she couldn't take care of him. All but
two of my siblings live in a different state than my parents. My father ended
up dying at this time.

My sister did not feel that this was a good time for the boy to approach my
parents. However, I disagree. Anyway.... she kept this a secret for almost
three years. Of course, when I found out....I told the entire family.

My mother confronted my sister and wanted to meet this child. The 'child's'
mother was not real thrilled with this. However, the 'child' is 32 years old.
My mother spoke to her trying to set up a meeting with the boy. It was
apparent to me that if he had come looking for his father....found my
sister....and would have liked to have seen my parents three years ago....he
must have wanted something to do with us but didn't have the opportunity at
the time.

After about 4 or 5 months, he showed up at my mother's door two days ago. We
are all thrilled to have him in our family (our BLACK line). My mother was
very thrilled to see him. He has many question about his father and his
background which I can provide him with due to all of my genealogy research.

I am a little saddened that my brother never knew of this child and that this
'child' will never get to see his father. I wonder how long this secret would
have stayed dormant had I not approached them for information on the BLACK
line of my family tree.

I live in California and am going to Michigan this summer to see my family and
do BLACK research in St. Joseph County. I look forward to meeting my new
nephew.

Colleen

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