It may allow them to see their grandchild born, or their daughter marry or to say goodbye to their family in the way they wish.
"A grandmother's anxiety wants everything to be fast, but there's been cases where it's taken years for a grandchild to accept their grandmother.
'We never see our grandchild, never see the kids, never see each other,' she said.
They have two sons and a grandson aged two and another grandchild due in November, whom he thinks he may never see.
"He did several portraits of me including one on the day of my birth," Sos said, referring to a drawing of a newborn baby under which Berény wrote: "I drew this for my Tommy, my first grandchild, at one day old – when he barely was – as a memory to that very far away time, when I shall barely be".
Filmmaker and lecturer Lidia Szajko is the grandchild of Berény and Eta – "an accomplished cellist" – who is depicted in the painting.
Anneli's mother, an English teacher, was looking forward to a new grandchild - police confirmed yesterday the 24-year-old had been three months pregnant.
In the comments, Steena says: "I was on a train last year, not long after Mother's Day, when an elderly lady's iPhone rang with the song Mama from 2pac (I suspect her child or grandchild had downloaded it for her).
Each DNA confirmation that a missing grandchild had been found and reunited with their biological family, usually accompanied by legal action against the "mother and father" who had appropriated them, has been greeted with joy across the political spectrum.
With hundreds of grandchildren still unfound, they have set up a DNA bank with samples from their own DNA to ensure that anyone who suspects they are a "missing grandchild" can step forward after they are gone.
I've been reading the international scientific reports on the climate, which say there is no future for my grandchildren and great grandchild unless there is a reversal in our use of fossil fuels, and a replacement by renewables.
