The Daily BuzzCaledon, Ont. man uses Kijiji to search for his family
knew he was born today, April 10, in 1976. However, until a few years ago, the Etobicoke resident didn't know that the mother who raised him was not his biological mother, according to the Brampton Guardian.
Now, Rogers is relying on the Internet for clues about who and where his biological family might be, according to an advertisement posted on the website Kijiji.
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Rogers told the Brampton Guardian that he's received an overwhelming number of responses to his ad since he posted it on March 31. The ad has more than 88,000 views on Kijiji, which isn't entirely surprising given the elements of this story about a man in search of a piece of his identity.
Rogers knows only bits and pieces of his family origins told to him by his adoptive parents, according to the advertisement.
My mother was from N.S., had brothers (I think) who were musically inclined, and worked in Brampton ON at a bank. She lived in Ontario during the pregnancy and moved back home after I was born and she left me.
Rogers knows only that his first name was once Jonathan but he has no last name from which to trace his family. He recounts a moment more than a decade ago, with a stranger on a train in New Brunswick, that has suddenly gained a great deal of importance in his search.
A man who introduced himself as a doctor from Amherst, Nova Scotia, thought he knew Rogers because of his striking resemblance to a family he knew at home, the advertisement says.
"At the time it seemed strange — but now it seems like the best chance I will ever have at finding my blood family," it says.
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It's too soon to declare Kijiji a tool for family-tracing but the volume of attention in response to his post suggests it might be a good place to start.
