Turns out my paternal grandmother Jean was a Peabody trained pianist!
My adoptive parents forced me to study piano as a child for 5 years. (Not my forte)
But as a teen and twenties I got very interested and CHOSE to take lessons.
Still, my true gift is as a vocalist.
There's an extremely strong chance my late adoptive father did regular business with my biological family since my biological family started the mid Atlantic Pepsi bottling franchise and Arnold, my adoptive father owned bars and restaurants in the early 70s.
But Arnold wouldn't have known they were my paternal biological family!
Got my DNA results. 236 fourth cousin and closer matches.
Of all the crazy (at this point unexplained) surprises; I've been contacted by one of my matches who is a Snyder.
But Snyder is my adoptive parents name. Say what?!
