The following is from the August 5 New York Daily News.
It took one woman more than half a century to find a piece of her familial roots.
Kriste Hughes, 51, was reunited with her birth mother and brother after a lengthy search.
Hughes was one of 200 children sold into adoption on the black market by Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks, an unscrupulous physician in McCaysville, Ga., decades ago.
“I know this is real, but I’m still kind of in shock,” Hughes told ABC News, which helped her and eight other “Hicks babies” to locate their biological relatives.
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The largest genealogy website, Ancestry.com, helped Hughes and the others track down their birth parents.
She sent her DNA sample to the lab and the site analyzed the specimen for free.
But chances of finding a match were slim. The database includes 1 million people, far less than 1% of the global population.
Despite the long odds, Hughes found her match — a first cousin named Jackie Flowers.
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Another DNA test returned a match. This time she got a mom and a big brother.
