After giving up hope that he would ever find his birth family, Stanley Borushik – a resident of Planview, N.Y. – tracked down his half-siblings in Chester County thanks to AncestryDNA, writes Rachel Uda for Newsday.

Borushik sent in his DNA sample to the site and soon got a match with a man in Florida. The man turned out to be his cousin, who informed Borushik of an Aunt Gladys in West Chester who died in 1977, but still had two children living in the area.

“It was a whole new can of worms, and I thought, once I open it, there’s no going back,” he said.

When he approached his half-siblings, Sam Wiener of Coatesville and Mary Townsend of Honey Brook, they were initially skeptical, but an AncestryDNA test confirmed their relation.

“It was the kind of thing you only see on TV,” said Townsend.

Wiener’s first conversation with Borushik lasted for 90 minutes, leaving both in tears by the end.

The three siblings finally met this month at Valley Forge National Historical Park. Borushik immediately noticed the similarities among them, cementing his connection with his newfound family.

“They were mine, and I wasn’t going to let them go,” Borushik said.

Read more about the family reunion in Newsday here.