So we finally had the extra money to attempt a search for the girls’ bio mother and get some photos to fill in some gaps in their life books. Thankfully, our girls remembered much of their early life, so we had a lot of good info for Gene Sagin to start with. We also gave him Aunt Nadiya’s address and phone number as she would have even more info and be able to help him find the girls’ bio father’s grave in the cemetery.
We had some specific questions and tasks we wanted him to accomplish and he was successful in all but one, which was not his fault. The birth mom, as usual, is roaming with gypsies, and was not nearby to visit. Gene got photos of the maternity hospital where the girls and their little brother Kolya was born, better quality photos of the birth parents wedding photos, photos of the girl’s grandparents and birth father as a child, photos of the birth father’s grave and the graves of the
paternal grandparents graves, and he managed to find the maternal grandmother’s home and to speak to her. The maternal grandmother gave Gene info on the birth mother –
saying she had visited only one month ago and that she returned on a fairly regular basis to Znamenka, and lived mostly in either Znamenka or Belgorod Russia. The maternal grandmother also confirmed the existence of a 4th sibling – a 3 year old little boy named Georgiy who is still with the birth mom. Funny enough though, the
birth mom wrote down the girls’ birth father as the father of this 4th child on the birth certificate, even though the bio father is the gypsy she lives with – maybe for stigma reasons? The baby doesn’t look gypsy at all, based on the photo Gene got from the maternal grandmother – big chubby cheeks and white blonde hair. Can’t tell the eye color though – probably brown like our girls. The birth mother looks HORRIBLE in the photo though – I think she may have HIV or tuberculosis.
Not much else was able to be accomplished with the maternal grandmother as she was drunk and Aunt Nadiya was ready to fist fight with her.
