In the summertime of 2021, a MyHeritage DNA take a look at introduced collectively half-brothers Fernando Hermansson Carabali and Ivan Andreas, who had been trying to find their organic households for years. They had been thrilled on the discovery and thought their happiness couldn’t be extra full… after which, they found that they had extra siblings.
Watch the video of their superb reunion beneath:
The brothers discover one another
Fernando, 37, started his life in Colombia, the place he was left at a monastery as an toddler. The nuns took him in and cared for him for a short while, after which they positioned him for adoption with a household in Sweden. He grew up there and had a cheerful childhood along with his adoptive household.
Fernando as a baby
As an grownup, he started to marvel about his organic household: who they had been, what they had been doing, what they seemed like. This curiosity led him to start out trying to find them. He traveled to Colombia hoping to seek out some clues or threads to comply with, hoping in opposition to hope to seek out a minimum of one member of the family — however discovered nothing. He returned house dissatisfied and discouraged.
Then, in the summertime of 2021, Fernando obtained a MyHeritage DNA equipment as a present from a very good good friend. It stayed within the drawer for just a few months till Fernando labored up the braveness to take it and ship his pattern to the lab.
4 weeks later, he obtained the outcomes, and proper there on the prime of his DNA Match listing was a person referred to as Ivan. The estimated relationship was listed as “half-brother.”
Ivan, 35, had grown up in Amsterdam within the Netherlands. He was additionally born in Colombia and positioned for adoption at age 3. He additionally had a cheerful childhood, and likewise began to develop a curiosity about his origins. He, too, traveled to Colombia to seek for clues about his organic household, and he even appeared within the Dutch tv program Spoorloos, which options tales of individuals trying to find misplaced members of the family. However he, too, discovered nothing.
Ivan as a baby
Then, he heard concerning the MyHeritage DNA take a look at and understood that this would possibly assist him discover organic relations. So he ordered the equipment and took the take a look at… and there it was, a half-brother match from Sweden.
“It got here as a little bit of a shock,” says Fernando. “I contacted Ivan and I obtained a fast response. It was unbelievable. Ivan is 35, so I’ve a bit of brother. It feels unbelievable.”
They determined to fulfill, and had an emotional reunion, which you’ll be able to watch within the video beneath:
“We’ve many similarities; we’re each artistic, we’re each actors and we’ve many frequent pursuits,” says Fernando.
The plot thickens
The brothers continued researching their origins and shortly made further discoveries. In December of 2021, they discovered two extra half-siblings: a pair of sisters, Angela (40) and Sandra (43), each born in Colombia and presently dwelling in Spain.
All of the siblings share the identical father. The sisters knew who their father was, however weren’t in contact with him, and he died 16 years in the past. In addition they knew one another, however weren’t in contact till they had been adults. That they had no thought that they had every other siblings, and it got here as an enormous and fantastic shock.
Ivan hardly speaks Spanish, and Sandra and Angela barely converse English, however the energy of their emotion and pleasure at discovering one another spoke for themselves. Fernando determined to fly to Spain to fulfill them as quickly as doable, and the 4 siblings had been quickly reunited in particular person. They’re now an inseparable a part of one another’s lives.
Sandra says she will be able to’t reside with out her siblings now, and advises anybody on the lookout for organic members of the family: “Don’t hand over, seek for your loved ones. Something is feasible!”
