05
October
2018
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10:56 AM
America/Denver
Searching for my Adopted Grandmother's Birth Parents
Ancestry Sisters
Summary
“Your mother was adopted.” That’s what my grandfather told my father on the night of his mother’s passing. This kind, wonderful woman grew up too ashamed to tell anyone her big secret, not even her 7 children. It’s heartbreaking and I can’t imagine what was running thru my father’s head at that exact moment when his dad drops the bomb. Here he is, dealing with the death of his mother Helen at the age of 74 from Breast Cancer, and now he has to process the fact that her parents were not her parents. Or were they..........
My mother was adopted in 1945 and I have the adoption papers but my grandmother was only listed as Alice Douglas. My mother was born on the 7th January 1945 in Umkomaas KZN RSA. Her name was registered as Elizabeth Patricia Douglas. My grandmother changed her name to Patricia Elizabeth Harwood. I was told my biological grandmother was a Swan in the British Navy. My mom passed away from MS and I am trying to trace the biological family to do research and find the family I never knew.
Can anyone assist me or help me get started.