Have you ever thought that you were going by the wrong birthday? After a 50 year old mystery was resolved a lady discovered that she has been going by the wrong birthday her entire life, and being adopted played a major role in the mystery.
Kristie Hughes has wondered about her birth parents since she was a teenager, but it was years later that she learned her adoption was far from typical. A doctor in Georgia essentially sold her to her adoptive parents.
Hughes is among roughly 200 adults who have come to be known as the “Hicks Babies,” newborns who were illegally sold into the black market adoptions by Dr. Thomas Hicks between 1950 and 1965, according to county birth records. For a few years now my aunt Jackie has been using Ancestry to research our family history. Then out of the blue one day my dad 's first cousin, Rogers Tipton calls us and tells us about him finding a sister he never knew he had. Because of my Aunt Jackie 's research and DNA testing it lead to Kristie Hughes to get in touch with her, to see if she could connect her to the family she never knew she had. From approximately the age of 14 Mrs. Hicks had a dream that she was adopted but had always felt like something was off and that something was missing. Initially none of her family would admit to her that
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About a year ago Mrs. Hughes daughter Holly, had read another article in the Akron Beacon Journal asking anyone who knew or believed that they were associated with the Hicks babies case to contact the author Melinda Elkins. Once again Mrs. Hughes made contact with Ms. Elkins, underwent DNA testing with no results. Wanting to help Mrs. Hughes, convinced ABC Nightline and Ancestry to take up and research the story. Mrs. Hughes agreed and underwent DNA testing for Ancestry and was very soon linked to my Aunt Jackie who led them to my first cousin Roger and his mother. Through more testing and research found out that Roger was 99% her brother and they shared the same mother and