Over the course of their phone conversation, it became increasingly apparent that the woman didn’t want anything to do with Tveidt. Sadly for Tveidt, the startled woman on the other end of the line immediately denied that she or her sister could be his mother or aunt. He called a number he had for one of them and a woman answered. Unannounced, he drove over to an office building where one of the two women reportedly worked. “I've been less nervous doing operations in Baghdad than I am right now.” “I'm going to … see if she's willing to talk to me,” he said then. “I felt completely certain that I had the right two women because of the way the family trees came together, there was just no other explanation,” Moore said.įor Tveidt, learning the whereabouts of his biological mother was a heart-stopping moment. Pouring over obituaries, gravesite locators and census records, she painstakingly began a process of elimination.įinally, Moore had pared down his biological mother to two women – sisters, one of whom would have been Tveidt’s aunt and the other would have been his mother. Moore then built the family trees forward with their descendants. Moore traced their family trees, all the way to their great-grandparents. She was able to identify two of Tveidt’s second cousins - one on his mother’s side, the other on his father’s.
Genealogist Cece Moore continued to dig into Tveidt’s family tree. He told Tveidt that they had a sketch of the woman suspected to have left him behind, but no fingerprints. He next went to the Anchorage Police and met Det. He first located his foster mother, Verneta Wallace, who had cared for him during his first few months, but she didn’t have any clues for him about his birth mom. Tveidt decided to continue his search for his biological mother. After searching for his birth mother, Benjamin Tveidt met his biological father for the first time and was "overwhelmed" by the reunion.
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