 A woman in Ohio reunited with her biological mother who has worked at the same company for the past four years, unbeknown to either of them. La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark, 38, of Youngstown, learned her mother's identity after the Ohio Department of Health released birth records last month for those born between Jan. 1, 1964 and Sept. 18, 1996. Since finding out she was adopted, Boardman Media Communicator La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark, 38, of Youngstown has always wanted to know who her biological mother was. She said those calls are being referred to the Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics in Columbus, which is handling the records requests. Her birth records included her mother’s name, Francine Simmons. She searched for the name on and found out they worked at the same company, InfoCision, a privately held teleservices firm in Boardman, just south of Youngstown. A day later, she got the long-awaited phone call from her birth mother, Boardman Volunteer Recruitment Communicator Francine Simmons! Mitchell-Clark has worked for InfoCision for four years, while her mother has been there for 10 years, a company spokeswoman told ABC News. To top it all off, mom and daughter live just 6 minutes from each other in Youngstown. “I’m still in shock. It’s amazing,” Simmons told WYTV, adding that she had always wanted to meet her daughter but didn't know how to do so. “I have seen success stories where people do connect and you can’t believe how wonderful it is for them, to other situations where people put that past in their life and have dealt with it and really don’t want to re-open that,” Voitus said. It turns out Mitchell-Clark has three other sisters she didn’t even know about, including another coworker Boardman Volunteer Recruitment Communicator Kamala Cummings! Another sister, Maisha Cummings, told the station, “It’s just amazing that all this time we’re thinking about her and trying to find her and she was trying to find us, too.” 
 
 Mitchell-Clark and Simmons did not respond to requests for comment. “You can fill in the blanks and then you realize those were not the blanks you really needed, that you had the answers all along and you are going to create your own story,” she said. “Now, we’ve got a bigger extended family where we can just be together,” said Francine Simmons.
– When Ohio's health department released birth records last month for those adopted over a period of more than three decades, a spokesman called it a chance for people to "possibly reconnect with some siblings or their birth parents," WYTV reported at the time. For one Youngstown woman, both her birth mom and sister were much closer than anyone could have guessed. La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark, 38, had been working with her mother for four years before the two found out about it, ABC News reports. Her sister—one of three Mitchell-Clark learned she has—works at the same company, InfoCision. The path to discovery began on Monday, when Mitchell-Clark's birth record arrived in the mail. She learned that her mother's name was Francine Simmons, and she looked up Simmons' Facebook profile, which revealed her place of employment. "There's a Francine that works at my job. She works in (volunteer recruitment) and she works at the front desk," she tells WYTV. It was the same Francine, and the two shared a tearful phone call soon afterward. "They would come in contact around the building and during events such as our corporate summer cookouts," says a rep for the company, which has put out an exclamation point-filled press release about the news. Simmons had always wanted to meet her daughter, whom she gave up at age 15. "Had her. Got to hold her. Didn't get to name her, but I named her myself in my heart all these years," Simmons tells ABC. The two women live only six minutes apart. (Another incredible reunion saw a mother reconnect with the daughter she heard had died 50 years ago.)