A woman from DuBois, Pennsylvania, was shocked to discover that she had two long-lost siblings - 75 years after a hospital mix-up meant she went home with the wrong parents, who both had a newborn called Sandra.
Sandra Baronick Pyne made the astonishing discovery after she was given an AncestryDNA kit by her in-laws in Christmas 2017 as they had wanted to trace their family tree.
Pyne had grown up in a Slavic family, so was surprised when the results came back the following March indicating her heritage was Italian.
Meanwhile, early last year, fellow Pennsylvanian Debra Monaco Zaffuto, of Ebensburg, had also taken an AncestryDNA test following a trip with her husband Barry to Italy as she was fascinated by heritage.
The results came back in May and revealed that Debra had a sister living in DuBois - none other than Sandra Baronick Pyne.
Sandra Baronick Pyne (right), of DuBois, Pennsylvania, was amazed to discover she had two long-lost siblings, Ron Monaco and Debra Monaco Zaffuto (also pictured) - 75 years after a hospital mix-up meant she went home with the wrong parents, who both had a newborn called Sandra
She was able to discover this since the AncestryDNA test gives users the option of allowing the DNA database to find matches to people that may be related, based on their shared DNA.
It also allows them to contact their possible family member.
When Debra contacted her brother, Ron Monaco, who lives in Florida, they tracked down Sandra's Facebook page and realised she looked just like their mother.
They also found out that Sandra had been born in the same hospital, on the same date, September 22, 1942, as the person they had assumed was
