A Danville man has received the gift of a lifetime, learning the identity of the man who brought him into the world more than 60 years ago.
DANVILLE -- On Father's Day, while most dads celebrate with a new tie or a day at the park, one Danville man has received the gift of a lifetime -- learning the identity of the man who brought him into the world more than 60 years ago.
Eventually he learned, through government records, the maiden name of his birth mother but his father's identity was a complete mystery, only that he was from Sweden. Loren took a DNA test and got no results. but then he sent his DNA profile to MyHeritage.com, a genealogy service popular in Europe.
There was something else. In 1980, Moberg sent Hakan an 8-page letter describing his life adventures and travels around the world including stops in Puerto Rico, New York, Ohio, Arizona and Mexico. Moberg said that he didn't intend to have any children because they didn't fit with his lifestyle. It was almost as if he was trying to explain his life to someone else.
"When you're adopted and you're in a search for your birth parents, you actually are searching for yourself," McDonald said. "'Who am I?' More so than you're actually searching for them.""The matching isn't rare but what's rare is someone who says 'I have a letter written by your father and I've been waiting for you for 40 years. I've got something for you.' This is something.
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