00:00Hi, I'm Nicole Chelowick, I'm 52, from Waterford, Michigan, and I found my sister a year ago
00:05by accident with Ancestry.
00:07Hi, I'm Jessica, I'm 49, and I'm also from Waterford, and I found my sister last year
00:15through Ancestry.
00:18I initially decided to go and get an Ancestry DNA test done because my mother was adapted
00:26and she looked for her biological mother her whole life.
00:30And unfortunately, she passed away before she was able to do that.
00:34And I was trying to locate who I thought was my family, because they were already on Ancestry,
00:40and I couldn't find them.
00:41And I was like, there's all these people I don't recognize.
00:45And so I just kind of let it go, I guess, you know, life got busy.
00:51And a friend of mine asked me one time, hey, did you ever, you know, find out about that
00:56DNA test?
00:57And I was like, yeah, matter of fact, I did.
00:58And so I pulled my phone up to show them.
01:02And that's when I discovered her message.
01:05And so I got home and I told my husband, look at this letter.
01:08And he said, well, you know, that sounds like she's related to you, not your mom.
01:17And so from there, I kind of put two and two together and realized that my father is
01:23not my father that well, well, my biological father is not my Bala, you know, she just
01:29she realized she had more fathers than she knew when I raised her and was her dad and
01:36then one that actually created her and didn't nobody knew my dad did not know everybody's
01:41gonna everybody involved in the story except for us is gone.
01:45So that's where left each other.
01:49But there were lots of other signs to that were true.
01:52I mean, she couldn't even believe my middle name because we share the same middle name.
01:56Yeah, that was great.
01:57I think her mom must have known who the father was, because she did give her that name.
02:02So I think that was kind of her mother's way of leaving a message behind for her that we're
02:07sisters.
02:08There were other things.
02:09I mean, we named our children after each other, and we never knew about each other.
02:12So my daughter's Jessica, just like her.
02:15I named my oldest son, Michael, and my biological father, our father, his name is Michael.
02:21Really weird.
02:22The funny thing was my whole life.
02:24I never looks like anyone in my family.
02:26I had this nose.
02:28And I would ask everyone, who do I look like?
02:30Am I am I really related to these people?
02:34So when I found out that he wasn't really my biological father, and then I seen a picture
02:40of my my my biological father, it all started to click and make sense.
02:45I look a lot like him.
02:46I have that nose.
02:48I was shocked.
02:50I was I was really upset initially, just because I, I felt a loss of my father all over again.
02:59I'm not losing my father, I'm gaining another father and a sister, and this whole family
03:04that I didn't know that I had.
03:06So within, I would say 10 minutes, I went through a lot of emotions.
03:12I felt very alone at that time in my life.
03:16I've lost virtually everybody.
03:19And so to realize that I have a sister, like, um, it's great, and awesome that we have so
03:27much in common.
03:28And we actually love these sisters.
03:29And we are a lot of life.
03:31And it's really weird.
03:32And I've always wanted a sister, although we didn't grow up together.
03:36It was really emotional, but I just I went up, it's a few hours north of where we live
03:41in Michigan, and her son was getting married, and I just went up there and met her.
03:47And we stayed the week together.
03:48I don't know.
03:49It was, it was weird.
03:50It's like, I don't want to say it's like, we've always known each other.
03:54But it's like, I'm having a friend that you haven't seen for a long time.
03:57It's like, we just, I mean, we just embraced immediately, like, and we're just friends.
04:03It's just, it's crazy.
04:05There's been no effort.
04:06It's just been very easy.
04:08I think that we found each other exactly when we needed to.
04:11Yeah, it might have been hard when we were younger, even though we always say that, that
04:15we should have known each other when we were younger, we might have been competitive.
04:19And I don't know, I'm convinced that she was probably in the congregation of my church
04:25the day that I was confirmed and baptized when I was 14.
04:31Because we went to the same church.
04:33Yeah.
04:34And I mean, there are a lot of churches, there are even a lot of Lutheran churches.
04:38But when we were younger with our grandparents, we were both, yeah, we went to the same Roladium,
04:43we went and roller skated, we went to the same movie theater.
04:45I collect bees and intuition about things.
04:50Yeah, we both love bees.
04:53We both like to go rock hunting and, you know, there's a lot of similarities.
04:57Yeah, our birthdays are only a couple days apart in February.
05:01We both have ties to her, one of her very good friends lives in the UK.
05:05And then as I said, my mom's, I found my mom's biological sisters on England.
05:11And she came over to the United States when she was young.
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