Overview
- In April a MyHeritage result showed a 100% sibling match for Minal Tijssen, who used the match to find Meena Geltink on social media and open contact.
- The pair first met as teenagers at an adoptee gathering in 1996, felt a strong bond, exchanged addresses and then lost touch for about 15 years.
- They met in person in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, where they hugged, cried and began speaking and messaging for hours each day as they rebuild a sibling relationship.
- Both women were left as infants at orphanages in India, were adopted separately into Dutch families, and now say the discovery has provided emotional closure for long-standing questions about their origins.
- Their story highlights how consumer DNA services can help adoptees locate relatives, with a rare full sibling match often prompting reunions and renewed family ties.