A 72-year-old Indiana woman is hoping that a Christmas miracle will help her find the long-lost son she gave up for adoption in 1963. When she was 19, Geraldine “Jerri” Kramer gave birth to a healthy, curly-haired boy on June 10, 1963, in Indianapolis, but was forced by her parents and her priest to give him up, she told ABC News today. “They said [he] was not welcome in their home,” Kramer said. Courtesy of Marie Henson 
 
 But Kramer said she always wondered and prayed about her first born, whom she named Jack after her father. At the urging of her parents and a local priest, she spent a month at St. Elizabeth Girls Home in Indianapolis, where young women once stayed to receive maternity care and hide their pregnancies. “It was the single most important thing to ever happen to me,” Marie Henson said. Courtesy of Marie Henson 
 
 Not even her husband, Joseph, whom she married in 1966, knew about the baby boy she gave up three years before they wed, Henson said. “He’s always been supportive and compassionate,” 49-year-old Henson said of her father when he found out about the baby. “It’s just as important to him to find him, for her sake.” 
 
 Kramer’s declining health inspired her to ask her children to help find their older brother, who would now be 52 years old. Kramer, all alone, was lying in a bed for several minutes holding her infant son before he was taken by nurses. Carlisle, who cannot comment on individual cases, explained that Indiana is a "mutual consent state," meaning all adoption records are sealed unless both parties consent to have the records unsealed. If Kramer’s first born has not registered for mutual consent, they will not release his information unless he has died. “We would love to be able to give this to her.” 
 
 In addition to her five children, Kramer has eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. All of Kramer’s immediate family lives in the central Indiana area, Marc said, calling his family "tight-knit." "Maybe I know him," he said of of his oldest brother. Kramer said she already knows what she would say if she saw her first-born again. "There is nothing I can do about that," said Carlisle, who has been conducting such searches for 24 years.
– Five siblings may have found their long-lost older brother thanks to a Facebook post. Their mother, 72-year-old Geraldine "Jerri" Kramer, gave birth to a baby in 1963, when she was 19 and unwed, but the Indiana woman's parents and priest made her give the boy up for adoption. Still, she bonded with the infant as soon as she held him, and never stopped thinking about him, she tells ABC News. Kramer, whose maiden name was Hummel, called the baby Jack, Fox News reports. He remained a secret from much of her family, even the husband she married in 1966. But in 1988, when her oldest daughter was considering giving up a child for adoption, Kramer told her the story and warned her daughter she'd regret parting with the baby. Then, as her health started to decline, Kramer asked her kids to help her find her own lost child. The five of them took a group photo on Thanksgiving and added the words, "You were born 6-10-63. You're our older brother, we're looking for you." They posted it on Facebook, where it's been shared nearly 45,000 times. "You were born June 10, 1963 in the wee AM hours, at Marion County General Hospital, in Indianapolis, Indiana. You were placed for adoption through Catholic Social Services," reads the post. "It has been Mom's decades-long wish to find you, and we would love to meet our big brother." In an update Monday, Marie Henson added, "I THINK WE FOUND HIM!! He saw the article, and DNA tests are our next step!" No further updates have been posted yet, but should Kramer—who also has eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren—find her long-lost biological son, she says she'll tell him "that I’ve loved him for years and years and years." (When these two long-lost siblings met, they realized they'd known each other for years.)