A woman in Georgia who was searching for her biological parents has found her father among her Facebook friends, BBC reports.

Tamuna Museridze’s search had begun in 2016, after the woman who raised her died.

Clearing out her house, Tamuna found a birth certificate with her own name on it but the wrong birth date, and she started to suspect she was adopted. After doing some research, she set up a Facebook group called Vedzeb, or I’m Searching, hoping to find her birth parents.

Instead, she uncovered a baby trafficking scandal in Georgia that has affected tens of thousands of lives. Over many decades, parents were lied to and told their newborn babies had died—the infants were then sold

Tamuna is a journalist and her work has reunited hundreds of families, yet—until now—she couldn’t solve the mystery of her own origins and wondered if she too had been stolen as a child.

The breakthrough in her search had come in the summer, when she received a message through her Facebook group. It was from someone who lived in rural Georgia, who said they knew a woman who had concealed a pregnancy and given birth in Tbilisi in September 1984. That’s around the time Tamuna was born—a date she had shared publicly.

The person believed the woman was Tamuna’s birth mother—and crucially they gave a name..

Tamuna immediately searched for her online but when she couldn’t find anything, she decided to post an appeal on Facebook asking if anyone knew her.

A woman soon responded, saying the woman who had concealed the pregnancy was her own aunt. She asked Tamuna to take the post down but she agreed to do a DNA test.

While they were waiting for the results, Tamuna made the phone call to her mother.

A week later, the DNA results arrived, indicating that Tamuna and the woman on Facebook were indeed cousins. Armed with this evidence, Tamuna managed to convince her mother to acknowledge the truth and reveal the name of her father. It was a man called Gurgen Khorava.

Once Tamuna had Gurgen’s name, she quickly tracked him down on Facebook. It turned out that he had been following her story on social media—her work reconnecting families is widely known across Georgia.

Tamuna was amazed to find that he had “been in my friend list for three years.”