Amazing Stories
Online web stories with a family or genealogy connection
- 11 year old breast cancer survivor - not something most of us expect. Is this something new, or did it happen in the past, but wasn't recognized? How many children buried in cemeteries experienced this?
- A Family Tree Rooted in American Soil - Michelle Obama learns about her slave ancestors, herself and her Country in this Washington Post newspaper article, the New York Times, and 21 minutes on RootsTelevision
- Day Old Baby Left on the Doorstep is the true story of my sister-in-law's unsuccessful family search for their mother Rose Ann Roethele Panyard's biological parents in 2000 and 2003, five years before she passed away in 2005. I attended the May 22-23, 2009 Climbing Your DNA: Genetic Genealogy at the Allen County Public Library sponsored by the Genealogy Center featuring Roberta Estes a leading expert in the field of DNA and genealogy. I decided to post this web page hoping someone will eventually come across it and perhaps with DNA testing eventually the mystery can be solved.
- Hunt for Son Given Up For Adoption Brings Frustration - happy reunion shattered after DNA test
- Implant Error Bonds Families - September 24, 2009 newspaper article: pregnant Carolyn Savage finds out implanted embryo is not her biological child.
- Kaitlyn Maher At 5, 'Talent' singer hits career high notes - September 7, 2009 newspaper article, Kaitlyn Maher started singing at 18 months and would sing herself to sleep, at 5 years old is recording her first CD.
- Kyle Lagrasso - August 2007, 5 year old golf prodigy started at 2 years of age, Yahoo video, need box of tissues as he overcomes early tragedy of eye cancer, loss of an eye, yet unaffected continues golf without missing a beat.
- "Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope" this book details the tragic mix up when a traffic accident April 26, 2006 claimed five of six lives of Taylor University students a few miles south of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana on Interstate 69. The mistaken identities were not clarified until the survivor Whitney Cerak regained consciousness five weeks later in the hospital shocking the Van Ryn family weeks after the body of their daughter Laura Van Ryn was buried by the Cerak family.
- Oregon Babies Switched at Birth Meet 56 Years Later a Good Morning America television story May 14, 2009 on two baby Oregon girls, DeeAnn Angell of Fossil and Kay Rene Reed of Condon, switched at birth May 3, 1953. Their mothers suspected the switch, but the times didn't allow questioning doctors and hospitals so no blood tests were ever conducted. The two families are now united forever with no hard feelings about lost memories and experiences. Modern DNA tests will reveal similar family secrets as tests becomes more popular.
- Who Is Rich & Who Is Poor - An Interesting Perspective with this Power Point Slide Show - you may need to OK and RUN Microsoft Add-ins to run it - then Click the Slide Show button on the lower left part of the window.
- You Look Like Brothers: Gary Nisbet and Randy Joubert separated at birth are reunited 35 years later when they began working together as furniture delivery workers in Waldoboro, Maine. Customers kept saying they looked so much alike they must be brothers. After their story broke, their half-sister Joanne Campbell, of nearby Warren, was 'hysterical' with joy when she finally found her brothers.