Overview
- Wilson, who revisited the discovery on Wednesday’s How to Fail podcast, said researchers focused on her father’s past because it was so unusual.
- In 2012 on Who Do You Think You Are?, Bulgarian records showed he married a woman named Alice who died three days after giving birth, and that their baby, Emil, died four months later from an infection.
- When she asked producers if she would meet relatives, they told her there was no family to meet.
- She said her father never told his family in the United States about the loss, and she noted that her nephew and her youngest son share the baby’s December 26 birth date.
- She placed the secrecy in context by recalling that he escaped a labor camp, reached the United States in 1949, and built a life as a bartender who supported his family.