A woman from the country of Georgia went looking for her biological parents only to find out she was friends with her birth father on Facebook all along.
She came across her birth certificate
Tamuna Museridze began the hunt for her biological parents in 2016 when the woman who raised her passed away.
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While she was clearing the house, she found her birth certificate and realized it had the wrong birth date on it. This caused her to suspect she was adopted and so she began looking for her birth parents.
She created a Facebook page for the search
Museridze created a page on Facebook to help her look for her birth parents and named it Vedzeb (I’m Searching).
Her public search paid off when she received a message from someone in rural Georgia who knew a woman who had given birth around the time Tamuna was born: September 1984.
They believed the woman would be her mother
The person who sent her the message said they believe that woman could be Tamuna’s mother. She then shared an appeal on Facebook asking if anyone knew the woman.
Tamuna received a response to this from someone who claimed to be the woman’s niece, and after a DNA test, it was confirmed that the responder and Tamuna were cousins.
Tamuna reached out to her biological mother
After Tamuna found her cousin, she was able to reach out to her biological mother.
But although she was unfortunately met with ‘screaming [and] shouting’ from the woman who ‘didn’t want anything to do’ with her, Tamuna was able to get her biological father’s name: Gurgen Khorava.
She then went on to look for Khorava
The journalist didn’t have to look very far to find her biological father. He had been following her work which became known across Georgia as she had been helping other families reconnect while searching for her own.
The two had become friends on Facebook three years prior to starting her search.
It turns out he didn’t know he had a daughter
According to the BBC, Tamuna said, “He didn’t even know my birth mother had been pregnant,” before adding, “It was a huge surprise for him.”
The two met in the father’s hometown of Zugdidi and it wasn’t long before they formed a bond. “It was strange, the moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter,” Tamuna said. “I had so many mixed emotions.”
She met her dad’s side of the family too
The father introduced Tamuna to his side of the family where she met aunts, uncles, cousins, and half-siblings.
Since then, Tamuna has also been able to learn more about what happened from her mother, who told her she and her father were not in a relationship when she became pregnant with her.
At the time, her mother hid the pregnancy and gave birth in secret, and later put Tamuna up for adoption.