Tangled Web We Weave

I’ve been working on and off for MONTHS and MONTHS on a case for a 50-something friend whose husband is a cousin from my Italian side.

I’ve had the family narrowed down for months.  And she has a match, at 544 cms, who’s also obviously a cousin in a similar age range, who is also an adoptee and knew NOTHING.

Well, over the weekend a new “half brother” match showed up for the friend.   Making me think well, she’s found out her info – until it’s revealed HER BIRTH DAD IS ADOPTED and while he tracked down info (which I do not have as of yet, but KNOW what family they’re from…) and he was told to never contact them again.  I hope he has some info…

I learned another lesson – you can be circling the drain and “thisclose” but if there’s other adoptions or mis-attributed parentage sometimes it is unsolvable, until a really close match shows up!

More later, when info is revealed.