Well on jan 6th 2007 my endless journey to find my lost Birth family finally has come to an End!
it started back a few months ago when i was in contact with who is now a friend(Heather Slade) who also is involved in her own search for her relatives!
well we sent emails to eachother concerning information that might help one another in our progree, so in these few months that we traded info felt like every peice of information was useless and that at least my search was coming up with very little that might help me in my contact with them...well it was all do to my friend heather as she sent me some info as she usually did concerning the Rossignol , she told me that she traced an old obituary from Grandfalls N.B. and it stated some living relatives at which she decided was a good idea to search for them as they are from the same city and country and just maybe by chance know of or even maybe be a lost part of my family !...so she sent me the info stating that there is a good chanmce that they would know me! And God Bless her she was Right! well while I took sometime before calling to collect mt thoughts and feelings and to try ready myself for this moment which ive been waiting for for most of my life!since im a smoker i had to puff abit before i took on this call that may change my life forever! so about 20 mins later after i got up the courage i gave it a shot and it rang and rang ..then a woman answered the phone my heart sunk to the pit of my stomach and i was stumbling for words as i said" hello can i peak to Lionel Rossignol ,she passed the phone to her husband and I began to mutter "im in search for my Birth Family ,Im looking for an Yvonne Rossignol from N.B" and the Gentleman on the phone said he didnt know an Yvonne Rossignol then i asked" did he know an Adrien Rossignol " I heard a pause and heard his wife get on another phone,and the gentlemans voice said yes he did know an Adrien Rossignol and that he had passed away! at that point I knew it was over and that I found what i was looking for !I said to the gentleman that i might be Adriens son and i needed to know what date he died to be sure and he answered quickly stating "he died in 1976 a year after my birth! suddenly the tears from my eyes started and i got all stuffed up inside and got such a huge over whelming feeling right threw my body as if my Dad was trying to reach out to me and tell me all my hard work is over and that I had found Him and our family !his wife began saying that she had a picture of me as a baby with a blonde woman who wasnt my birth mother.so i asked her if it was Sandra my adoptive mother and she said yes that she thought it was her!I proceeded to ask them where my birth mother was and they concluded that she was just my dads girlfriend at the time of my birth and after he died she married a police officer from N.B. and that they couldnt remember her last name. I realized right then and there that this was it,that i finally found them and my Brain went blank;all those questions i had just sank to my inner gut and i froze up and immediatley started to sweat and loose my voice ,all the questions i had just sank and i didnt know what to say....so i tried to hold it together by saying this is Great and i cant beleive I found you and i want to send u a picture that i have of my Birth parents and some legal documents concerning my adoption so that you know this isnt someone playing a joke nor a crank call.
we ended the conversation quickly about 5 mins to be exact,which i was thankful for cause i wasnt upto talking a whole lot after this kind of news though I was unbeleiveably happy to not only find them but to hear them on the other side of the phone ,just made me feel so volnurable and excited at the same time.which i my self has not had to deel with those exact type of feelings before (hard to explain),but I did end up sending my information to them via email and waited to get an answer back from them ! I waited for 1 hr and was all messed up thinking "maybe i opened up some old wounds or brought back some bad memories to my birth family cause of my contact with them another hr passed and nothing by this time i was pullin out my hair thinking to my self whether or not to call them back on the phone to see if they received my email and if they are o.k...well i called and it rang and rang and rang til an answering machine came on and said leave a message ! at that point i didnt know what to do or say,so i non chalontly asked if they received my email and could they at least let me know they got it or not! i hung up and felt so awful thinking maybe i just wrecked my uncle lionel's day making him go back to that moment in time where he lost his brother and a little peice of his family as well(me).after i got off the phone i had to call my wife jacki at work to let her in on the good news ..needleless to say my wife was so very happy for me as if she had found her lost family ,which was very nice of her knowing lately ive been feeling in the dumps about my situation at this point in my life.so i began to tell her my conversation with my aunt and uncle and how i was feeling and how i froze up and that my heart sank to the pit of my gut and i was feeling over whelmed.she then told me not to worry and relax and not to rush into anything...give it some time for everyone to adjust and everything will be fine and work out in the end! i guess this is why i married her cause she is Beautiful and genuinely a very good woman and has stuck by me threw some pretty tough times!one thing i can say that im a very lucky guy in life so far! other than wanting to be Rich $... there isnt much of anything else that i need cause My lil boy and my wife are my world to me! and always will be ,and they provide my stamina and my love and the support to carry on even threw the darkest of times,and for this i will always cherrish them for this! for i may not have much in this world but i have all the love and support one man could ever need! and by having this type of family sure has made even this alot easier than it would have been if i was alone.and sometimes i can agree with that old saying"Behind every good man is a better woman" cause my wife can lift the world when it comes to her guy's!....(I Love you for that Woman)because she was at work i didnt want to take up too much of her time and just wanted to fill her in on what happened! after that call i turned to my lil boy and said to him"We found Grandpa" and the little guy screamed "YAHHHHH GRANDPA" and thats when it hit me like a ton of bricks and the water works started...I finally am going to find out where my dad is buried and i will visit with him shortly,and i may even find out where my Birth mother went to after my dads death and maybe even contact her as well,but thats all in good time,since i have already hit the Gold mine! well another few hours had went by and still nothing back from them ...now i was getting nervous cause now i was starting to think i was right that they didnt want to communicate with me...time came when i had to leave and pick up my wife from work and we chatted about it all the way home and you know what i found when i got home ?...a phone message from my aunt and uncle stating that they have received me messages and that they're email wasnt working great and the couldnt send an email out in response.....whew... thank god what i was thinking was wrong they did want to communicate with me but they couldnt!
That was a Hear warming feeling like no other ive had!
so far this is my story of contact and im hoping it will lead to more!
thinking on asking them to meet with me somewhere but not sure as to where ,would they feel comfortable in their own home,would i feel comfortable there or maybe we should pick a "medium" place like a donut shop or something along those lines...still not sure as to where and when but i will ask to meet with them and see where i have originated from and let them meet my family as well.
I personally think this contact will bring nothing but Good to both families !
I will be writing about future events concerning this find and will continue to be the relentless husband and father that i have always been ,and to let my adoptive family know that nothing will ever change between us ! and they have done a great job in raising me cause i know i would have killed me for some of the stuff i put them threw ...but I Truly am a Lucky Man!
I Love my Wife jacki and my son Christopher with all my heart and soul!
you guys are my everything!
I love My father Howard John James Murrant with all my heart and soul and would do anything for him !
I love my Dad Adrien Roy Rossignol with all my heart and soul and I Will see him again ..
Since i was told of my adoption I promised who ever my birth father was and what ever happened that i would not give up in the search for him!
Told you Pop"s id find you!....

Also in Loving Memory of My adoptive Mother:

  Ever Loving Sandra  Elizabeth Murrant

                  ETERNAL LOVE FOREVER