Hey Skipy !! I know just how you feel !! My mother left my father when I was only a year old. She remarried, and I knew that she had had more children, but they were never told about me . But, when I started doing my family tree a few months ago, I discovered a niece, she told her dad, HE told his sister, the oldest one ( or so he thought !! ) of the family, she contacted me, and we all got in touch !! ( My lovely sisters Gloria & Colette, and my brother, Clifford ! ) I have now met, and hugged,all three of them, and Cliff"s wife, although I haven"t seen the girls' husbands, or anyone"s children yet.To suddenly go from being virtually alone ( all my lot, bar two, are dead ) to being a part, however small, of a big, loving ,family is ,as you now know, Skipy, the most AMAZING feeling !! Aren"t we both the lucky ones ?? !! .......Roger..