Desperately Seeking my Birth Father (Morgantown Area, 1978-79)

[Staph]

2. I was born and raised in Morgantown,

but I had moved away by the spring of 1977. I'll ask my sister, who was a WVU student until May of 1980.

May I suggest that you have your DNA tested? I just got back my results from Ancestry.com a month or so ago. They found more that 1000 possible relatives for me, from my mother (who had her DNA done as well!) out to fifth and sixth cousins.

You can look at your matches and click on the View Match button to see the relatives that you have in common. That helped me to separate maternal and paternal cousins.

It's even possible that your birth father or his close relations have had their DNA tested as well.

I wish you the best of luck. I have adopted children in my immediate family, and I understand the need to know where you come from.