DNA tests help reunite siblings who were sold into different families by their mother 50 years ago

Ann Bryntwick from Canada has given birth to more than a dozen children. She gave eight of them for adoption to Jewish families. After more than half a century, the brothers and sisters met, reports Arguments and Facts.

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Sharon Coppola

As a child, Bob Bryntwick from Canada changed his place of residence frequently. He also remembers when he was little, his mother was constantly "in position." But the children never stayed at home for long. After a maximum of a week, the babies disappeared and never returned.

Five children were constantly brought up in the family without a father. Bob was in the middle. Today, the man is 73 years old and recently found out that he has six more brothers and sisters around the world.

Bob's mother, Anne Bryntwick, carried the first child for money for a Jewish couple. Their names were Eleanor and Alex Joseph. The couple tried in vain to give birth to a baby, even tried to adopt, but they were not allowed to do so. In the 40s, due to segregation, a Jewish family could only adopt a child of the same religion. The girl Ann gave birth to was named Sharon Coppola. When her mother Eleanor died, her father confessed to Sharon that she was their adopted daughter and had a twin sister somewhere in Canada. Sharon tried to find her, but to no avail - there was no question of the widespread use of social networks at that moment.

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In 2013, Sharon Coppola decided to join the Ancestry database. Bob Bryntwick was already in the same company. And in 2017, Sharon was offered an Ancestry DNA test to find out her origin. Bob did the same. This is how Bryntwick and Coppola found out that they were siblings.

"I paid good money for you"

Further, the story developed more abruptly than in the Brazilian series. Reisa Spier, a Canadian, has always known that her parents adopted her. At 51, a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer. She searched for relatives through DNA companies to find out if her daughter was at an increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. For her birthday, she received a DNA test kit as a gift. So Reisa learned not only that she did not have a fatal mutation, but that she herself was only half Jewish. But also the fact that she has a sister, Rain, who lives in Massachusetts.

Raine also grew up in a Jewish family and always knew that she was an adopted daughter. A mother named June kept telling her, "I paid good money for you." When the mother's marriage broke up, the girl was raised by foster grandparents. But Raine was on fire with the idea of ​​finding her real, biological parents.

Today Rhine is 70 years old. The children, knowing about her old dream, gave their mother a DNA test for the holiday. For a year she was even afraid to touch the test, and only in 2016 did she read a letter from her sister Reisa.

Quebec Black Market

Rain and Reisa didn't understand how their parents allowed their daughters to be separated. Why did they do it? In search of the truth, they decided to turn to Ancestry. Sharon and Bob were already registered with this genealogical company.

Reisa and Rain met in 2016. Bob and Sharon started dating in 2017. Later, Reisa found Bob, and they found out that all four had the same biological mother: Ann Chop Bryntwick.

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Bob and the siblings he grew up with knew only that their father was a Jewish man named Max "Mike" Mitchell. But he appeared in the house infrequently. According to the matured brothers and sisters, in almost ten years of relationship, Mike and Ann had eight children, six of which they gave up for adoption. Neither Canada nor the United States had federal laws at the time prohibiting the sale of babies. So Quebec became an ideal place for the sale of children on the "black market".

Now all of Ann Bryntwick's children, many of whom are over 60 years old, keep in touch with each other. But they do not leave the thought that their mother actually had even more children. And this means, perhaps, somewhere on the planet there are still their brothers and sisters.

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