MOC26TraditionHeritage

Credits:
Forever Joy | Believe

Journaling:
Growing up, I was never really close with my extended family after my mom and dad moved from South Dakota to Arizona. When my maternal grandmother, Peggy, was alive I recall my mom telling me that she had been in a fight with my great-grandmother about her not being her real mother. When my Grandmother passed away, my mother had seen that on her mother’s birth certificate there was another woman’s name, NOT my great-grandmothers. For a long time it was a great mystery as to who this lady was and why my great-grandmother chose to lie about something like that. This winter I decided to go on Ancestry to get my DNA processed along with trying to find information about my extended family. When I came across this letter, it stopped me in my tracks. The letter is to a children's home in Sioux Falls where my great-grandmother was adopted and RENAMED. Long story short, I had solved the great mystery about our grandmother and great grandmother. My grandmother WASN'T adopted, my great-grandmother was and her birth name was written on my grandmother’s birth certificate somehow!