Into his seventies, Gantois still had no clues to pursue, no name to work with, no paper trail to follow. “He told me, ‘I’ll die without ever knowing who he was.”‘Visits to U.S. offices in France produced only frustration. “‘You have an American brother, a sister, a whole family,”‘ Gantois recalls her telling him. “I didn’t know what to say.”His dad, the test helped reveal, had been Wilburn ‘Bill’ Henderson. The trail would have ended there for Andre Gantois had his American half brother not also taken a DNA test.

Source: National Post May 20, 2019 06:33 UTC