Posted on 07/04/2013 9:20:08 PM PDT by Morgana
TLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -
A 96-year-old woman searching for her son is capturing hearts on the internet.
A family member of Nancy Thomas posted a picture on Facebook urging users to help find her son Donald Lee Thomas.
Nancy is pictured holding the sign that reads: "He was not given up for adoption, I haven't seen him in 10 years."
She wrote that he was last seen in Atlanta, GA.
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A lot of folks don’t know about the Social Security Death Index and its usefulness as a place to check whether someone you’ve lost touch with long ago is still alive.
Even if you know about it, there are a few places online that only “tease” you with it and don’t give any details, unless you ante up some money.
“A Donald L. Thomas, purportedly born December 24, 1955 (which might be an inaccurate date from a friend who just guessed), passed away in Atlanta in 2009:”
According to this woman her son was born November 1954. Maybe she is suffering from one of many old age illnesses that cause memory loss and does not remember her son died? Could be. Usually though a woman never forgets the month/day her child was born. I know my Granny never did. Plus “Thomas” has to be a common name is any town, and how big is Atlanta? Plus she said she’d not seen him in 10 years, 2009 is only four. Still who knows.
Donald L is also certainly not as definitive as Donald Lee, especially with a last name like Thomas. There have to be quite a few Donald Thomases out there.
Only one Donald L Thomas, though, had a social security card issued in Georgia, and passed away in Georgia during the past 10 years. And that Donald L. Thomas had a date of birth close to that of Mrs. Thomas’ son.
My gut feeling is that it’s probably him. But again, I don’t know for sure.
I’m not certain whether DOBs in the SSDI are always accurate or not. Someone who knows more about the SSDI than I do might weigh in here.
Obviously, if we had an exact DOB match that would confirm the record referring to her son. That’s not the case. So maybe he’s still alive.
See also post 23, though.
To much info missing in this story.
The story says an un named Family member is driving this search.
This Ol Gal didn’t just lose her son, and she aint just senile.
Something is amiss.
“The story says an un named Family member is driving this search.”
So what do you think the family is up to?
I have no idea.
All I am saying is this story is long on emotion and short on facts.
That story is heartbreaking for the mother.
As for the daughter, you can’t fix stupid.
We are to assume that the adoption mention is a complete non-sequitur, it appears. So, we have a lady who saw her son possibly off to college, get married, maybe had kids, but for just the past ten years hasn’t come by.
That is how I am taking it. Why she mentions the adoption thing, I don’t know. She could have said he wasn’t wearing pink socks and that would have been just as relevant.
Seriously, if they are looking for Donny boy, where is the picture of Donny boy?
Why an Un named family member?
Why no contact info?
Yea you know it is kinda strange they did not post a picture of the missing son.
It’s tad odd.
A bit askew.
I believe I saw an AOL email address as a contact (people still use AOL?) That I understand, she was posting this on facebook and does not want every weirdo calling her house. Her son should know her phone number anyway or better yet where she lives.
And she should know his.
What’s the backstory? When did the family break?
What was the rift?
I know, it made sense to me.
My first thought was about those FB posts where someone is looking for the child they gave up or the grown child is looking for the parent/family, so I think it makes perfect sense to mention it.
“Usually though a woman never forgets the month/day her child was born.”
My mother, who recently passed away at age 95, couldn’t remember my birthday but she had dementia.
That makes sense. There are many cases of birth parents or children looking for one another many years after an adoption.
Some people viewing this story might think it is one of those adoption-related searches and would not want to help (considering it to be an unwelcome intrusion on a child that was given up for adoption).
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