Woman Tracks Down Long-Lost Dad Using Newspaper Ad–And Discovers 11 Siblings

Woman Tracks Down Long-Lost Dad Using Newspaper Ad–And Discovers 11 Siblings

Woman Tracks Down Long-Lost Dad Using Newspaper Ad–And Discovers 11 Siblings Louise Walters with her father (left) after finding him in 2014, and with her sister Zoe (right) – credit, Louise Walters, via SWNS Thanks to a good old newspaper back page ad, an English woman has found a whole new side to life—her father’s, whom she had never met. It started when Louise Walters was 8 years old and found out the man she thought was her father, wasn’t. Louise’s mom, Angie Ishmael was in a relationship and living together with another man in Brighton back in 1969 for around a year before finding out she was pregnant. During Louise’s childhood and adolescence, her mother would say that her real father was irresponsible, and probably in prison or dead. One of those two prognostications turned out to be wildly accurate. But Walters always wanted to know who her father was, and so in 2010, she placed an ad in the Lost Touch column of the Brighton Argus which read: “I am trying to trace a Gary Pavella wh…