We (my sister and I) know who our birth dad is (verified with mom), but are having trouble finding out much about him. It looks like he was in and out of marriages through the 70s and 80s, and then died in Elkhart in 2012. He was buried in a veteran's cemetery in Houston. I did find his junior yearbook online last night, and he looked nothing at all like I was expecting.
We have since tracked down a half-sister, but have yet to get a response back from her. Her last login into the site was "3 to 11 months ago" according to her profile. I've also found her on FB, but she has 3 or 4 different accounts and there doesn't seem to be much activity on any of them. Seems to be one of those who makes an account, forgets her password then moves on to another account. She's already pissing me off for that reason alone! We decided we'd give it a couple of weeks to see if she responds to our message on Ancestry, and will move on to trying her FB accounts if we don't hear anything.
We've talked on the phone for the first time Saturday morning for over an hour, then again last night for about 45 minutes. I was worried we wouldn't have much to say and there'd be a lot of moments of uncomfortable silence. But after the first couple of awkward moments, it was like we already knew each other. She seems to be a cool ass chic that would be fun to hang out with. She's even FB stalked me and none of my occasional rants on religion or politics seems to have turned her away. Not yet anyway.