Sisters brought together by DNA testing

Sisters brought together by DNA testing

Julie Mamo has been ready her complete life to satisfy her little sister.

The Adelaide girl clutched flowers as she waited for her sibling, Julie Ansell, to step off a flight from the United Kingdom.

Mamo’s organic mom gave her up for adoption after she was born out of wedlock in Dover in 1956.

Julie Ansell and Julie Mamo have been waiting their whole lives to meet each other.
Julie Ansell and Julie Mamo have been ready their complete lives to satisfy one another. (9News)

At the age of 9, Mamo landed into the arms of her adopted mother and father David and Mavis Holland.

After the household moved to Adelaide as ten-pound Poms when Mamo was 13, she had questions in regards to the identification her start mom for 50 years.

There had been additionally questions on Ansell’s aspect.

Unknowingly, at about the identical time, each households had been utilizing MyHeritage DNA kits to seek out the hyperlink.

The pair plans to travel to the UK to meet the rest of the family.
The pair plans to journey to the UK to satisfy the remainder of the household. (9News)

Last 12 months there was a match and the pair additionally discovered a connection on Facebook.

Ansell’s nephew discovered the lacking puzzle piece.

“He said ‘Julie, do you know a woman named Julie Mamo?'” Ansell stated.

“I said ‘no Jase, I’ve never even heard of her’, well she shares 14 per cent of my DNA.”

The Julies have spoken on-line ever since.

“We’ve not had sisters, so that’s absolutely amazing,” Mamo stated.

Lillian handed away in 2019 and whereas she had instructed her household in regards to the adoption, she hadn’t given her first youngster a reputation.

The sisters now plan to journey to the UK to satisfy the remainder of the household.

For the following month there shall be loads of hugs, earlier than each of them hop on a aircraft once more, and meet the remainder of the household within the UK.

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Source: www.9news.com.au