They told her that her daughter was dead. In 1949, at a hospital in the state of Indiana, it was shortly after birth. But that was not true, as Genevieve Purinton would find out only decades later.

In the US state of Florida, a woman has found her mother - almost 70 years after her birth. Several US media reports about it, including the New York Times and CNN. The meeting ends a decade-long search.

When Genevieve Purinton wanted to see her child after the birth in 1949, she was told that the baby was dead, she told CNN. Purinton was single, according to research by the author Ann Fessler in the US about 1.5 million women between 1945 and 1973, the children were taken away because they were single. Pressure was therefore exerted on all mothers by mothers, clerics, doctors.

Genevieve Purinton says she was told that her daughter died shortly after birth in 1949.

But it turned out to be that daughter, Connie Moultroup, what adopted and lived her biological mother.

This month, the pair reunited: https://t.co/pViDrA3g51

- NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) December 6, 2018

Purinton's daughter Connie Moultroup came to an orphanage. A couple from Santa Barbara in California adopted the child. They once told her that her birth mother was the "friend of a friend". Their adoptive parents died before Moultroup learned the truth.

For years she searched for her mother - in vain. Then she got a Christmas present that was supposed to change her life.

Last year, Moultroup got a DNA test of a relatives' search platform from her daughter. The result led her to a distant cousin. She got in touch - and he took her to her mother Genevieve Purinton.

Moultroup sent her mother a card with her contact details. On September 8, they spoke on the phone for the first time, according to NBC. Purinton called. "I think I'm your mother," she said into the phone. "Oh my God," Moultroup replied.

They arranged an appointment. Last Monday, according to CNN, they met for the first time. Moultroup drove to her mother's nursing home in Tampa, Florida. "We cried," Moultroup said. They could not have stopped for a long time.