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View submission: What's the longest unanswered question in your family's history?
When my (adopted,) grandmother died, my uncle found some papers that probably should have been returned to the court in Grandmother's possession. The papers gave the names of my mother's bio parents and the reason for the surrender. This was before the internet or DNA tests. Everyone tried, but we couldn't find them with the tools available in the 1970s and 1980s. Flashforward, in 2015, my SIL is helping Mom sort papers for shredding and she came on the adoption papers. J said to Mom: "Can I make a search?" Mom told her to go ahead, but no one had found anything and anyway, it's 75 years-they are probably dead." Six weeks later, Mom had another sister, another brother, another SIL, another BIL, another niece, another nephew, and some more great-niblings as well. We did the DNA to confirm, although Mom and her bio sibs look enough alike to be scary.
There's nothing here!