I'm an adoptee who made contact with a half-brother some 25 or so years ago when adoption records were first opened here. We are still in regular contact. There is a half-sister too, but she decided against contact. My biological mother died young and I still have very limited information about her life.
Recently I took a DNA test which turned up another half-brother, plus the identity of my father. I went from an only child to one of five (the 'new' half-brother informed me there were two of them)
and discovered a whole swag of ancestors, going back to early settlement days here in Australia - and before. Some records go back to the 1600s. I am now in regular contact with this half-brother too. Sadly I never got to meet either parent. But thanks to a DNA match who turned out to be a 'family historian' I probably know more about my heritage, (at least one side of it), than most people. It's been a very interesting journey.
