A Nevada woman is making a last-ditch effort to find her birth mother after she says her 14-year search has ended up fruitless.
In a viral video plea posted on Facebook this June, Carolyn Yvonne Ross Jones explained that she was born in London, U.K. in 1973 to a 19-year-old woman named Pat or Patricia Ross from Newcastle.
Born three months premature at 1 pound 10 ounces, Jones’ birth mother was informed by the doctor that her baby would not survive.
“So she left the hospital and never returned for me (thinking I died),” Ross says in her video.
Jones said she was adopted as a baby and moved to the U.S. in 1980 as a child. She told Global News that it was her adoptive father who told her the story of how her birth mother abandoned her.
She now lives in Henderson, Nev. with her husband and son, but says she is “definitely missing a huge piece” of herself without knowing who her birth mother is.
“It makes me very sad,” she said.
Over the last 14 years, Jones says she’s tried nearly everything she could think of to locate her birth mother, including DNA testing, hiring private investigators and contacting a medium.
Jones said her birth mother’s name is a very common one in the U.K. and tracking her has been a challenge.
There is no father’s name present in a copy of Jones’ birth registry provided to Global News.
Now Jones says her final chance to find her is to travel to the U.K. to seek her out in person.
If she gets the chance to meet her, Jones said she has one message for her: I never gave up looking for you.
“I will feel like a piece of me is whole again,” she said. “I will know where I came from, what she looks like. I will [finally] have answers.”