Kristina E.E. Soond:
My father is listed on my birth certificate in Cleveland in 1939 as Joseph Soond. World War II broke out and he served in the Merchant Marine. He divorced my mother, Helvi Ellen Mackey, amicably in 1949. It had all been a mistake, really. Mother and I had no contact with him over the years -- very little even during that marriage. I never even knew Ethel's maiden name. My mother also married again. I personally changed my name legally to an anglicized Sand when I entered the Air Force in 1959. Mother's Finnish parents emigrated from Finland in 1903. It would be a small world indeed if you were my legal half-sister!
Respectfully,
Douglas E. Sand