Two women abandoned by parents reunited as sisters 50 years later
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What started as individual curiosity brought two sisters back together.
Liz Kellner and Tammy Makram didn't know they had a sibling. Both women were abandoned by the same parents four years apart, according to WSYX.
Makram and Kellner were adopted as babies by different families.
Makram was found wrapped in a blanket, and four years later, Kellner was born and found by patrolman George Janssen in a laundry room, wrapped in two blankets.
ABC News reported the sisters discovered each other after they each researched their own ancestry. Kellner took a DNA test and Makram signed up for Ancestry.com.
After searching through their results, the sisters found each other.
"In the past year, I have not only connected with (Janssen), but my birth parents, five half siblings, two full sisters and many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles," Kellner said in a Facebook post.
Butterflies. My sister Liz and I are feeling a lot of those this morning, as we’ve been told that our story will likely...
Posted by Tammy Makram on Sunday, January 10, 2016
