A Nova Scotia woman has finally met a half-sister that lives on the other side of the Atlantic, thanks to a DNA test.
Jennifer Salib Hunter and Friedel Grant are half-sisters that found each other thanks to a DNA testing service. Published Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:14PM ESTJennifer Salib-Huber grew up as an only child, but last spring her family circle expanded drastically when DNA testing connected her with several half-siblings she never previously knew existed.“It was eye-opening in the most wonderful way to see these people that I looked like,” Salib-Huber told CTV Atlantic.
The two women were conceived via artificial insemination at the Dalhousie Fertility Clinic in the mid to late 1970s. Forty years ago, it was not common for parents to share such information with their children and no records were ever kept at the clinic. But before passing away more than 20 years ago, Grant’s mother revealed that she was donor-conceived. The revelation sparked a search that led her to half-sister Salib-Huber in Atlantic Canada.
There are five siblings that the two women now know about through the 23andMe and AncestryDNA genealogical testing services -- but Grant and Salib-Huber believe that there could be even more. “For me, DNA testing has really been the greatest gift that I could ever have received,” Grant added. “It took me from a situation where I had no possibility to know who my biological father was, or if I had siblings, or perhaps more importantly, my medical history. You have to understand, for my entire adult life I have never been able to give my physician a complete medical history.”
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