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Old 01-01-2014, 04:55 PM  
EddyTheDog
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
My father died when I was a baby; I was never close to his side of the family. When I was twenty-five I got a call from my grand mother (my father's mother), and she told me my sister was trying to reach me. The only problem is... I didn't have a sister.

Turns out I did. Before I was born, my father was married and had a daughter. About the same time, he had son with another woman. So I had a brother and a sister I never knew I had - and lots questions about why all of this was hidden from the three of us.

Have you tried ancestry.com?
I have been really lucky - The first site I found was this http://www.blackmanfamily.org/

He has been researching the name for over a decade and has put it all online - What a stroke of luck...
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