information to work with and they assumed that Ann's birth mother Alice was very young when she had Ann, when, in fact, she had been 33. Samantha put ads in the local newspaper, searched electoral rolls and online forums. She made little headway. In 2013, a breakthrough came. Samantha said she was exhausted doing the research and taking care of her child at the same time. Her husband asked her what he could do for her, and she asked him to find Alice's death certificate. He did, and they discovered that Alice married George Burton when she was 49; they had married in 1951 in the Parish Church of St Bridget with St Martin in Chester. They also knew that the couple married in Chester, England, and that Alice had a stepson named Albert. Albert died by this time, but they were able to track down his son, who told them, "Oh, yes, Alice has a daughter in the US." Samantha later told her mother Ann that not only did she have a sister, but that her sister was her twin. Samantha was apprehensive about telling her mother that she had a twin because her mother was the twin that was adopted; but when Samantha told her mother, she was just happy to find out that she had a sister. First contact On 22 April 2013, Elizabeth was going through her mail when she spotted a letter (sent by Samantha) from Aldershot, UK, where she was born. When she opened it she saw that the letter began with "I am writing to you as I am searching for a family connection" and she immediately knew what it was about. She shared the letter with her two sons Quinton and Jeff. A few minutes later she called her long-lost sister Ann in the UK. After their first phone conversation Elizabeth wrote a letter to Ann to explain what had happened. Elizabeth wrote to Ann that their mother planned to have both of her twins adopted, but that when she found out that Elizabeth had curvature of the spine, which back then made her harder to adopt, she decided to keep Elizabeth. In 1936, it was difficult for an unmarried woman in domestic service to keep a child. Alice was a live-in servant and live-in servants were almost never allowed to keep any children with them. Moreover, she had the stigma of