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I had a new cousin pop up a few months ago. I was very excited because it is on my direct maternal line, which has a lot of common surnames.
I sent them a message and we've since met in person. I was shocked they live in the same city as me and no on ever knew who they were or that we had a relative. This side of my family is VERY close so it was a shock.
Finding this new cousin also made me acknowledge that the person they are descended of (my 2nd great uncle is their grandfather - 2nd great uncle was a brother of my great grandmother and I knew him my whole life and all his other children - I think - until he passed in 2001) is a half brother to my great grandmother. I'd noticed that other known descendants of this uncle didn't have the paternal line shared matches that my great aunt (daughter of great grandmother) and a 1C1R has (granddaughter of my aunt's brother). But they match all the maternal line cousins back to those descended of my 4th great grandmother.
I had a daughter of my uncle test to confirm the relationship with the new cousin and she came back as a half first cousin to my great aunt - who is her first cousin. So we know for sure now that uncle was not the son of my 2nd great grandfather. This was a shock to the family and the 2nd child of my 2nd great grandmother I've discovered was not fathered by her husband. I'm going to have some cousins of my great grandmother's sister test as well via some new test I'll buy on black Friday to see if her sister also had a different father.
So I not only got a new cousin - we keep in contact as well and his new found aunt is very happy to have a new nephew - they talk almost everyday, but I discovered a 100 year old paternity secret lol.
I also have a 'new' cousin -- not really new, but discovered. When her father (my maternal uncle) died suddenly back in the 1960s, her mother cut off communications with his family, even though she was pregnant -- the uncle was the fifth of six children. My mother (sixth of six) suspected that her sister-in-law was pregnant, but it was only a hunch. Then she vanished. An older aunt thought the woman re-married and moved far away -- no one was really sure.
It's weird how these things used to happen -- the days before social media and cell phones -- people could simply disappear.
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