The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 9, 2014 edition of scotsman.com:
A Scottish pensioner has been reunited with his long-lost brother and sister for the first time in 70 years.
Grandfather William Rae, of Clochan in Moray, grew up with a foster family and spent decades trying to trace his roots.
Now Mr Rae, 72, has met younger brother Ian, 69, who lives in Bristol, and sister Jean, 67, from Falkirk, for the first time in their adult lives.
The former marine, who has eight nieces and nephews he never knew about, said yesterday: “It’s wonderful. It has taken many years, but we’ve finally made it.”
William’s luck changed after his stepdaughter, Christine, researched the ancestry of the family. She achieved impressive results with the help of an Aberdeen-based amateur genealogist, who used his birth certificate to start a web search for his long-lost family.