Friday, May 9, 2008

An Amazing Story

Today I received this:

I will let the pictures tell the story.

Here is a little girl.

She is Vitaly’s half sister Victoria (with her school teacher)
She definitely has his grin!


Here is Victoria again




She is on the top row and fourth from the left


Here is a house





It is the home of Vitaly’s Great-grandmother Maria and she is in the entrance.

Here is a close-up of Maria



She looks wonderful for 86!
I was told she has the same amber (gold/green) eyes that Vitaly
has. We have never seen anyone else with his eye color!

Here is a church

It is in the village of the Great-grandmother

Here is the village



It is named Pochapintsy



Here is a portrait


It is of his Biological Grandmother and Grandfather (Igor)
We received a whole story to go with the pictures. There are more pictures. There is history and tragedy. There is a half brother too.
There is also a Great-grandmother and half sister ecstatic to learn the fate of the little baby named Vitaly and anxiously awaiting to hear more.

7 comments:

Nataliya said...

Wow! Did you hire somebody in Ukraine to do a research for you? It's really amazing that Vitaly has a half-sister, half-brother and a great-grandmother! Can't wait to hear the rest of the story!

marcmn01 said...

Happy Mother's Day Leanna!!
We love you V-V, Niky, & Oxy!!...u2 Larry

Uncle Mark & Aunt Rah Rah
WHO-DEY!!

Jeri said...

Wow, Maria has a face that just shows strength,character and a caring heart. How wonderful that you have all of this now to share with your son. That is wonderful!

Zack, Jenn and William said...

So glad you were able to get some info. We're about to use the same guy that you used, but I wanted to check with you and get your advice on what questions you gave him - he told me to make a list of questions and a list of pics we'd like to have. Will you please email me at
dovefamily @ bellsouth . net (remove the spaces)? Thanks!
Jennifer

Mike & Tara said...

That's so incredible!! Would you mind emailing me as well with the name of the guy you hired and the list of questions? We'd like to do this for Nicholas. Now that his English has improved he is telling us events from his life but I think his memory is a little fuzzy as he's told us one event with two different endings...

Debora Hoffmann said...

I'm so excited you were able to locate relatives for Vitaly and Nikolai! Wow!

Annie said...

How wonderful!!! We recently did a successful seach for my son Sergei's sister. Unfortunately, al the photos she sent were of her own daughter (she is 23 and married). I hope perhaps she has some photos of her mother...who knows? You got very fortunate!