Family Secrets

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When Lennard Davis received an email from A Stranger who was Lennard said His closest living relative, he thought it must be a Scam. Lennard is claimed to be a Jewish professor from New York , and The Stranger , by a line of Polynesian chieftains. It took four years to solve the abolition of the two-Family Secrets to The Puzzle .

in 1979, Lennard Davis, uncle Abie told Him That he had a secret - But he said he could not show while Lennard's Father , Morris, was alive.

Morris was in the hospital with cancer. When he died, two years later, Lennard reminded Abie about The Secret , and asked if he could now be said.

First of all, uncle Abie hesitated - he said Lennard forget everything, he wanted to say to Him . But Lennard pressed Him .

"So, he said to me," Lennard says. "He said, 'I am your Father . '"

Lennard, pictured as a baby, with His older brother, Father and mother, It's a disturbing Revelation - Lennard was brought up to dislike uncle Abie and To Believe That he was trustworthy. And with both of His parents Gone now - Lennard's mother had died almost a decade earlier - there was no-one left who could explain what had happened.

"My parents had told me never. There is a secret in The Family , and probably on one level, a shame was a," Lennard.

years passed, to examine before he decided The Secret That His parents had taken to their graves. But at the age of 55, in the Year 2000, Lennard decided to make Some Tests to check whether His Paternity .

Lennard pictured with Morris, after the marathon of New York in the late 1970s, Lennard looking for envelopes, Morris likes to have licked That a remnant of His DNA could, and asked His cousin to do the same, to try to harvest some of the Abie's, who was now dead, too.

came back As The First results, Lennard nervous, opened The Letter .

He had never been particularly His Father , A Man he describes liked, how difficult and intolerant, with an explosive temper. But as he read The Letter , which stated That Morris, The Man had raised Him , was His biological Father , he felt really sad.

Later investigations revealed That uncle Abie was probably Lennard's real Father .

years later, in 2014, Lennard was contacted out of The Blue from A Man from Pago Pago in American Samoa .

He said His name was Lancelot Tauoa, and That , after a DNA test he had discovered a very close genetic connection between Him and Lennard.

"My first reaction was That I said very, very suspicious," Lennard.

But as he is on the database, where His DNA test results were registered, Lennard could see That right next to His half-brother (The Man he once was as His cousin), the name Lancelot Tauoa. The two men appeared, the second cousin.

"it was very confusing," Lennard. "My Family is Jewish, pretty much through and through, and all of a sudden a guy from American Samoa , there turns out to be a close relative? It was a very strange, jaw-dropping concept. "

Lennard remained skeptical, But difficulties to imagine how these two families might have been connected. It was a GI from His Family , the released have been in The South seas?

"I had no idea who it was or The Details , But to be honest, I thought it was something in connection with Prostitution - That was my guess," Lennard.

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Lennard and Lance stayed In Touch by E-Mail, and in the course of time, Lennard suspicions about Lance began to decrease.

"was There says something very poignant about Lance 's letters," Lennard.

"Through His E-Mails, I need to be able to feel Like . He really, really wanted to know, and I identified with Him , even though I've never met Him . "

After you have already discovered That His uncle was in fact His biological Father , Lennard imagine That a similar secret in The Family must lie behind the connection to the Lance .

He assumed it would be relatively easy to get to the bottom of The Mystery , But it took More Than four years and many wrong turns, false assumptions and blind alleys before The Truth was finally established.

More Than 7,000 Miles Away on an island in the South Pacific , Lancelot Tauoa had never had no idea That there were secrets in His Family until The Day of His grandmother's funeral in the Year 2000.

Lance 's grandmother, The Daughter of The Village chief in Pago Pago , a small Christian society, where everyone knows everyone else's business. On The Day of The Funeral , many people came to pay their respect, including Lance 's great-aunt Eppe - is His grandmother's Sister - who was beside himself with grief.

By chance, Lance heard one of the mourners said That the reason, Eppe was so upset That Lance had a large wound mother, Eppe son, Sekeli. But Sekeli was Lance 's Father , who had died a few years earlier, so this would Eppe Lance make a great mother instead of The Woman buried.

Sekeli had looked a bit different than other people on The Island and was known to many by the nickname, the Samoan Elvis .

Lance 's Father , Sekeli, image to in 1958, "My Father was very tall, over 6ft 2in, and very light-skinned," Lance says. "He didn't go in the Church, and he was really into Western movies. He was really funny. "

A few weeks later, Lance decided to confront Eppe about what he overheard was at The Funeral .

"you dismissed it says:" Lance . "They said, 'listen to this kind of gossip,' And Then a few months later, she died. "

But during the planning Eppe funeral, Lance 's suspicions were confirmed when the head of their family said That either the Lance or His Sister would eulogise Eppe in the service. Her Father was Eppe's biological son, he explained.

"It was very shocking," Lance says. "I was confused and I wanted some answers, so I went to My Father , the Sister , and she told me That she thought That we all knew. "

Lance was told That Eppe, The High chief's daughter, was estranged from her husband and fallen pregnant as a result of a secret romance with a strange man was.

Lance 's grandmother had adopted and raised The Child .

Lance was angry, betrayed and confused. Had known His Father ? Why had nobody told Him ?

Lance 's Father and mother, in 1974, After Eppe funeral, began the Lance closer to The Family of the older Generation for the reply, But I was told That since neither His grandparents or the Father had spoken with Him about it, he should now let it rest. But Lance really wanted to find out who was His grandfather.

"The only thing I knew of the rumors was That The Man was a U.S. marine in American Samoa - That was it," Lance says. "There is no name, Nothing . "

Lance started His research by reading books about the US presence in the South Pacific during the second world war, But it seemed almost futile as the search for a needle in a haystack.

Then he decided to take a DNA test and had an immediate breakthrough. Lennard Davis, The Academic from The Bronx , who had The Key to The Puzzle .

as soon As Lennard had overcome His doubts, the two men began a combined search of the mysterious American soldier connected them.

Lennard was looking first for clues in His mother's side of The Family , But turned up Nothing useful. Finally, he focused on His grandmother on the paternal side the line.

"But That was a side of My Family , I knew Nothing about it," he says. "We had absolutely no information about you. "

Lennard grandmother's maiden name was Movshovich. The Family had arrived in the United States from Lithuania, via the United Kingdom, But it needed The Discovery to open That they had changed their name in Morse code, The Family records.

With The Help of a researcher, Lennard and Lance The Family traced as far back to 1700. Then you have a distant cousin of Lennard's, said she had an old family photo album That may be of interest to you In Him they found a picture of A Man who looked very familiar to Lance .

"He was in His uniform, he smiled, he was looking directly into the camera:" Lance . "He looked so much Like My Father , My Father 's twin. He was very pretty. "

Lance held up the photo of The Man in uniform on His cell phone, His screensaver, and could not stop to look at it.

"The Eyes jumped out at me - I think I've said those eyes," Lance .

In other photographs, he discovered other things in common.

"I realized That the hairline - I always wondered why I had this strange hair," he says.

But who was The Man in the photo smiling back at Lance ? No one knew anything about Him , not even His name.

certainly, Lance had to Father ' s great.

"But we have no Smoking Gun ," says Lennard.

Lennard contact with Peter, began to share His memories of Charles.

"He seems to be a very charming, likeable person," Lennard says.

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