Was going to NC for this but what the hell...
I was adopted at birth back in the early 1960's. I found my birth mother 20 years ago and we have a comfortable relationship.
When we first met she told me that my father had been in the US forces and returned to America on learning of her pregnancy (whether by choice or due to US forces policy isn't clear). She told me his name - John Brownlow*
BTW, the Daily Mail can fuck off.
Over the intervening years I've searched in vain for my bio father. I did a DNA test with Ancestry - no luck. However I saw a recent MN thread about transferring DNA results to other sites so I uploaded it to another search site and bingo; two positive results, one woman in her 80s and another in her 50s - my aunt and my half sister! A bit of digging and I find James John Brownley* - my father. Still alive and with (at least) three children.
The Daily Mail can still fuck right off.
I messaged the sister via the DNA site a week ago; no answer. I stressed that I didn't want to gatecrash their family, but that I had a natural curiosity to learn about this side of my history.
I've found their LinkedIn accounts (father, sister and brother) and, if they look, they will see I've viewed their profiles, although the accounts are fairly dormant; ditto their FB accounts (sorry if this sounds stalkerish!) - they obviously won't be notified of that.
Question is - what should I do now? Mail my father directly? Email the other sister or brother? Leave it? Thanks to the wonders of the web I've got addresses and phone numbers - maybe a letter?
Help!!