DNA testing reunites half-siblings separated by WW II mystery

Rod Anderson lives in England, Barb Lowe lives in Canada, and for almost 80 years, they didn't know they had the same dad. I couldn't believe how much you reminded me of dad. Really? Yeah, you've got the same ears. Elephant-like, you said. Yes, big ears. Rod was born at the end of the Second World War to a British mother. This year, he was stunned to learn his father was actually Charles Blakeney, a former Canadian soldier stationed in the UK. My grandmother, my mother, none of them said a word. It really was very surprising. You could knock me down with a feather even today. It turns out, on the other side of the ocean, a Canadian family spent decades trying to find out if a rumour was true. After the war, there were rumors that, like, My grandfather had a child with a woman in England. Eventually, divorce papers revealed the baby was real. But they had no idea who the child was until Bethany Allen did a DNA test. It pointed to Rod. And I was like, oh my God, there he is. Oh my God, his name is Rodney. It's funny. I thought, this is a wind-up. It has to be. But it wasn't. Rod had done his own DNA test years earlier. Now he talks to Barb every week. The one didn't link up, but this one does. You can't believe what a shock it is to get that knowledge. It means the world. He's everything. He's everything to me. Rod's now booked a ticket to Canada to finally meet his newly discovered family face to face. Never give up looking. It'll make a difference to my children and their children and their children's children. It will go on. You never know what the DNA can do.