Many people use social networking sites to catch up with old friends or to connect with coworkers, but one man from Harrisonburg says what he found on MySpace changed his life forever.

"It's a very, very loving family. It's amazing. It's something that I never experienced in my life," says Max McGrath.

He is talking a recent fun-filled family reunion in the Poconos, a trip he might not have taken had it not been for the website MySpace.

Two years ago, on what he thought was just an ordinary day, McGrath received a message from a woman named Venus, who claimed to be his cousin.

"I guess the biggest things going through my head was, 'Is this real?' Or had someone come across some information and was messing with me," comments McGrath.

Before receiving the e-mail, he didn't know much about his family because he had been adopted when he was five.

Before that, he had been taken away from the rest of his family by his mother, who would eventually loose him to child welfare services.

He had not put much effort into looking for his family, but after the e-mail, he felt he should connect with them.

McGrath contacted one of his new-found aunts by phone. Then he started calling other relatives too.

Soon their phone conversations blossomed into relationships, and they all decided to meet.

"As the van was pulling up, the doors were opening. It didn't even stop and the door was opening, and people were ready to just jump out of the van before the van even stopped," recalls McGrath.

It was an emotional, yet wonderful day for him. McGrath would eventually learn from his grandmother how important it was to his late father for his family to find him.

"I know that his dying wish was for the family to find me, and I remember seeing by grandmother get out of the van. She was just in tears," says McGrath.

Now he hopes to fill a blank photo album page with one more picture: one of the mother who took him away.

"I want to find her. I'm just scared of my reaction when I do," says McGrath.