同父异母的兄弟用我的遗传基因找到了彼此。Then, They Discovered They Had Sisters

In the summer of 2021, a MyHeritage DNA test brought together half-brothers Fernando Hermansson Carabali and Ivan Andreas, who had been searching for their biological families for years. They were thrilled at the discovery and thought their happiness couldn’t be more complete… and then, they discovered they had more siblings.

Watch the video of their amazing reunion below:

The brothers find each other

Fernando, 37, began his life in Colombia, where he was left at a monastery as an infant. The nuns took him in and cared for him for a little while, and then they placed him for adoption with a family in Sweden. He grew up there and had a happy childhood with his adoptive family.

As an adult, he began to wonder about his biological family: who they were, what they were doing, what they looked like. This curiosity led him to start searching for them. He traveled to Colombia hoping to find some clues or threads to follow, hoping against hope to find at least one family member — but found nothing. He returned home disappointed and discouraged.

Then, in the summer of 2021, Fernando received a MyHeritage DNA kit as a gift from a good friend. It stayed in the drawer for a few months until Fernando worked up the courage to take it and send his sample to the lab.

Four weeks later, he received the results, and right there at the top of his DNA Match list was a man called Ivan. The estimated relationship was listed as “half-brother.”

Ivan, 35, had grown up in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was also born in Colombia and placed for adoption at age 3. He also had a happy childhood, and also started to develop a curiosity about his origins. He, too, traveled to Colombia to search for clues about his biological family, and he even appeared in the Dutch television programSpoorloos, which features stories of people searching for lost family members. But he, too, found nothing.

Then, he heard about the MyHeritage DNA test and understood that this might help him find biological relatives. So he ordered the kit and took the test… and there it was, a half-brother match from Sweden.

“It came as a bit of a shock,” says Fernando. “I contacted Ivan and I got a quick response. It was fantastic. Ivan is 35, so I have a little brother. It feels unbelievable.”

They decided to meet, and had an emotional reunion, which you can watch in the video below:

“We have many similarities; we are both creative, we are both actors and we have many common interests,” says Fernando.

The plot thickens

The brothers continued researching their origins and soon made additional discoveries. In December of 2021, they found two more half-siblings: a pair of sisters, Angela (40) and Sandra (43), both born in Colombia and currently living in Spain.

所有的兄弟姐妹都有同一个父亲。姐妹俩知道她们的父亲是谁，但没有和他联系，他16年前就去世了。他们也互相认识，但直到成年才有联系。他们不知道自己还有其他兄弟姐妹，这对他们来说是一个巨大的惊喜。

Ivan hardly speaks Spanish, and Sandra and Angela barely speak English, but the strength of their emotion and joy at finding each other spoke for themselves. Fernando decided to fly to Spain to meet them as soon as possible, and the four siblings were soon reunited in person. They are now an inseparable part of each other’s lives.

桑德拉说，她现在不能没有她的兄弟姐妹，并建议任何寻找亲生家庭成员的人:“不要放弃，寻找你的家人。世界杯东道主2022一切皆有可能!”