Sisters brought together by DNA testing

Julie Mamo has been waiting her whole life to meet her little sister.

The Adelaide woman clutched flowers as she waited for her sibling, Julie Ansell, to step off a flight from the United Kingdom.

Mamo's biological mother gave her up for adoption after she was born out of wedlock in Dover in 1956.

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At the age of nine, Mamo landed into the arms of her adopted parents David and Mavis Holland.

After the family moved to Adelaide as ten-pound Poms when Mamo was 13, she had questions about the identity her birth mother for 50 years.

There were also questions on Ansell's side.

Unknowingly, at about the same time, both families were using MyHeritage DNA kits to find the link.

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Last year there was a match and the pair also found a connection on Facebook.

Ansell's nephew found the missing puzzle piece.

"He said 'Julie, do you know a woman named Julie Mamo?'" Ansell said.

"I said 'no Jase, I've never even heard of her', well she shares 14 per cent of my DNA."

The Julies have spoken online ever since.

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"We've not had sisters, so that's absolutely amazing," Mamo said.

Lillian passed away in 2019 and while she had told her family about the adoption, she hadn't given her first child a name.

The sisters now plan to travel to the UK to meet the rest of the family.

For the next month there will be plenty of hugs, before both of them hop on a plane again, and meet the rest of the family in the UK.

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