What are Birthparents Learning About Adoptees

I have been re-united with my biological family since 2000. I was able to find them due to some valuable information I received from my adopted mother (at the time of my adopted father's death). It took me 30 years to be able to properly use the information stored in my memory, but in 1999 I accessed [url]http://www.ancestry.com[/url] and discovered that my biological father had passed away in 1981. I also discovered "Ancestry's" community message board and with that I placed a simple message. A distant cousin found the message and relayed it to one of my siblings; the rest is history. Even though I had never met any of my biological relatives, the similarities in both physical features and personality traits was unmistakable. Music is important on the maternal side and I had taken piano lessons as a child because my adopted mother was certain I had music in my background--she was correct. Blood is thicker than water or at least biological traits are. I have a nephew who looks more like me than he does his father, who is one of my younger brothers. This experience has been one of the defining moments of my life and it didn't come until I was fifty years old. I would give nothing in return if asked to give up this event. To be able to see, both in photos and in person, faces that resemble yours is without compare. Although I had the most loving and supportive adopted family any individual could ever have, there is that overwhelming need to be connected to those who, had events gone differently, would have BEEN your family.