BS: I've got a brother!

Subject: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:19 PM

Brief timeline:-
I was born 1952, my mother gave me to Bernados for adoption, adopted 6 months old, renamed, brought up by adoptive parents (for which I am very greatful) always wondered about blood relatives, started a trace in 1994, (post Royal Air Force days), found out about 6 years ago that I had 2 younger 1/2 brothers, went to Belfast in 2002 (mothers home town) found out a few bits of info, started to trace one brother, found out last week that he died of bone cancer (1984) aged 17 last week, traced other brother today, spoke to him, he is up for a meeting! He told me that there are 3 1/2 sisters as well, up to today I have never in my life spoken to a relative because I never had one! What a day!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:21 PM

Sorry about the one brother and happy about the other. I hope you have a wonderful time getting to know each other, Skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:27 PM

Thanks Peace, I am very vunerable at the moment, but feel that it will work out.
One amazing thing is that one of my sisters has MS & has had it for about 15 years, we (Kate & I) have been running a charity for MS for 19 years, supported by ALL the best folkies in the land & USA + Canada, see                wwww.folkforms.org
Skipy

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From: Ruth Archer
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:28 PM

good luck, Skipy. I really hope it works out for all of you.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:31 PM

Thanks Ruth, I hope to get sponsered by Kleenex! Been "one hell of a day"
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:33 PM

It will work out Skipy. Neat to hear you have been supporting MS. (As a firefighter, I support MD.) Hey, man, it's gonna be neat to meet your sisters, too. But one step at a time, huh? Deep breaths. I know in my heart it will work out for you.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:39 PM

Peace, check out my site      www.folkforms.org
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:42 PM

Hot link to Skipy's site.

Man, you are one good dude.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:43 PM

Thanx Peace.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:56 PM

I was jsut looking through the site, Skipy. You folks are doing great work.

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From: Hawker
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:58 PM

Hey Skipy! Thats wonderful, I always cry when you see those re-union surprises on TV, if it me, I'd probably be more than emotional! Hope it all works out well for you all and that you get on well with your long-lost family.
Does your brother cross dress? ;0) and more important if he does, is he the same size as you, so that you can borrow his clothes!!!!!!
- something my sister and I would always fall out about when we were younger!
Have a wonderful re-union and the tissues with balm are the best!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:03 PM

Wow, Skpy, that is wonderful news!! I hope you and he become the best of friends.

A

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:07 PM

We organise and do the paperwork, the artists do the real work, without them there would be nothing. You can't sell a concert by sayting that the seats will be out in rows & the staff will on the door. Trust in the fact that the above will happen + great artists will give their time makes it happen & makes it a sucess.
So, how about a Folkforms in USA & one in Canada?
Take the challenge & run with it!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:15 PM

Hawker + Amos, Thank you so much tonight, I needed a few chuckles & you put them in place for me!
I feel "really strange" it has been a long hawl, but now the real work starts.
However my best mate has done most of the work, better thank her sometime, she is called Kate & I have to wake up next to her most mornings!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:22 PM

Skipy, Skipy, Skipy. For once, I am not gonna say the first, second or third things that popped into my mind. Just this once.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:29 PM

how wonderful for you to find (blood) relatives - brother & sisters!!

I hope you have a lovely time with your new family

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:41 PM

Oh Skipy!!! How wonderful and sad at the same time. It's so good that you found this out. My music gang did a free gig for the local MS fundraiser last Saturday.

I think we live in an MS Cluster but since Wyoming isn't a mandantory reporting state, no way to find out for sure. BUT, this community of just 6,000 has raised $30,000 for MS research in the last 5 years and ALL of it will go to research!!!

Keep your chin up, and everybody has a bro somewhere!

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From: Bonecruncher
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:44 PM

Wonderful, Dave.
Isn't it great to find relatives we don't know exist?
Hope to see your even more smiling face soon.
Colyn.

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From: Mickey191
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:51 PM

Wishing you all the best--sisters too? Thats the icing on the cake. Have fun Skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:00 PM

good for you, skipy! We have a friend who discovered her birth mother and some relatives a few years ago, and it has been a joy & a revelation getting to know them.

Many happy meetings to you!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:05 PM

And on the Lighter Side...anybody want a 22 yr old daughter? NO maintenace fees available, but she's a hell of a waitress. Can almost cook too! Comes complete with 2 Corgi dogs. We won't discuss the 'baggage', OK?

I think I'd probably freak out if I found out I had half sibs somewhere. I'm pretty sure (on MY side at least) that our kids don't.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:17 PM

I hope it all works out ok.
I believe I have a German half-brother in Berlin, circa 1950, who I'd love to meet, but don't think it's likely.
It would be great to get together with him.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:19 PM

Great news! A friend in New Zealand had the same revelation some years ago, in fact she said to me "there are more of us than any of us knew!"

Enjoy getting to know your new family, it may not all be smooth sailing but I'm sure you will all pull through OK.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:30 PM

I met my sister who had been given up for adoption for the first time nine years ago. It's an amazing feeling.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:36 PM

I got a brother as well, not met him yet!
Sorcha-don;t wanr your daughter, already got one!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:51 PM

I hope you have a very happy and gentle meeting with them all.. Wonderful news .. I was found by an older half sister in the 80's.. (Ah familys in the arts ..) Pm me for more on this if you like.. Congratulations ! Guy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 09:19 PM

I found out I had two brothers and a sister -- had to live with them growing up, too. It must be really neat to discover sibs you never knew you had! Instant family.

Maybe your MS group has been doing some good for your half-sister -- now that would be really cool!

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From: Bee
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 09:43 PM

Very cool. Hope it turns out great!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Metchosin
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 10:13 PM

Wow skipy! Hope this turns out really well for all!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 10:21 PM

Wow - good luck skipy!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 11:32 PM

Great story! I hope the reunions work out well for you.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 04:55 AM

Thank you all for your comments, told my 2 pairs of best friends on the phone & then told my other "family"! you guys!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:28 AM

Great Stuff mate - And can I Thread Creep a tad ? If they are Belfast Area , why not get over to Portaferry in February for a meeting AND some music ?

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: GUEST,Elfcall
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:52 AM

Skipy - that is brill.

My wife found her 'other' family at 32 years of age - not only did she have 4 other 1/2 siblings, but 4 more assorted uncles and aunties and more cousins than she could shake a stick at.

With every good wish that you find the happiness and contentment that she did.

Elf

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 06:43 AM

Good for you, lad.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: bubblyrat
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 07:39 AM

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..

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 08:24 AM

Good for you Skipy, and Roger. How wonderful to have the chance to get to know more of your family in adulthood.

I wish you many happy family reunions.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: *daylia*
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 08:27 AM

Oh Happy days, Skipy -- sounds like this has been a long time coming!    :-)   

All the best to you and yours,

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 10:51 AM

It's great to hear some good news.

Wishing you lots of happy times to come.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 11:39 AM

That's just great, Skipy! Amazing - adult siblings without childhood memories - how can you push people's buttons when you weren't around to install them?

Best of everything! Enjoy!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 12:26 PM

Best of luck to you.

When I found out I had 3 half brothers and 2 half sisters I sent a video tape of my childhooed photos and a biographical letter.

Not one answered.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 12:58 PM

It's better to find your sibs when they're adults, I think. MY siblings used to beat me up and hit me on the head and things when we were kids. They haven't done any of that in the last, oh, twenty or thirty years....

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: open mike
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 01:15 PM

good news..hope you all get along well
and have good times ahead..i presume
you missed out on meeting the brother
who has now passed...make the best of
the time you all have now!!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 03:06 PM

I'm happy for you, Skipy. Be lucky. Al the best from Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:24 PM

Congratulations on your successful search, Skipy- and the very best of luck to you.

On the light side: My husband and I had a daughter before we divorced. Several years later he and his second wife had a baby boy and my daughter lorded it over her sibling-less cousin that she "has a baby brother'.

Her cousin one day approached her mother and asked desperately: "Mommy, are you sure I don't have a baby brother someplace?"

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:26 PM

That is just too kewl, Skipy! Have fun and be sure to keep your heart surrounded by your friends' love and care...it will be reflected back to you, I am sure, by your new sibs. OH, and here's to KATE!!!

I had a friend whose father travelled a lot for work. She found out, many, many years after he died, that he had a whole other family, at the same time he was married and living with her mom and her! Her mom was in her 80's when they found out. They went out to visit the other family and have seen them several times since. I can't remember if the other wife was alive or if it was just the kids, but it turned out very positive for them.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:37 PM

I've dreamed about finding parts of my family like you have, what a wonderful gift!

WMP

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: skipy
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 07:12 PM

WMP, go for it, it's a lot of work, but trust me just for the moment you meet it's worth it.
Who knows where it will go from here for me, only time can tell.
Skipy.
P.S. Thanks to all of you for your support, it means a lot to me.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 08:04 PM

"Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:37 PM

I've dreamed about finding parts of my family like you have, what a wonderful gift!

WMP"



If you are a member, and you could use some advice as to how to start going about that, message me.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got a brother!
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 08:48 PM

Dear Peace,

Thank you kindly for the offer however I have met with a dead end. My father was adopted during a time when it was all hush hush. To make matters worse, he was adopted by a physician, often done behind closed doors amongst doctors with no records being kept. I do, however, appreciate the offer and if you think you can help overcome that dead end, I may indeed write to you.

WMP