The story of Jim’s discovery: Jim Lane found out when he was 12 that his father's real mother died when his father was just a baby. No one in the family knew anything about her. Jim's father longed to somehow see a picture of her. But he didn't even know her name.

After decades of searching microfilm in libraries and archives, Jim decided to try and find his grandmother on Ancestry.com. His father recalled the unique name of an aunt he'd known as a child so Jim searched with different spellings and discovered the aunt in the 1910 U.S. Federal Census.

He was able to find the aunt again in the 1920 U.S. Federal Census. And there, listed alongside her name, was his grandmother's real name.

He was absolutely thrilled, but he had no idea where this clue would lead him.

Now that he had his grandmother's name, he was determined to track down living cousins who might know more about her. He found them - and with them, a treasure trove of old letters and photographs of his grandmother.

These discoveries allowed Jim to finally introduce his father to the mother he'd lost as a baby.

"It was just something he never thought was possible. He'd gotten to be 70 years old without ever seeing his mother and he'd long since given up hope that he would ever find out what she looked like. And there she was in front of him," said Jim.