After spending more than six decades wondering where he came from, one New York man fulfilled his final wish when a DNA test reunited him with around 50 relatives living thousands of miles away in Italy.
Born Giancarlo Lavi in Turin, Italy, in 1952, Carlo Arco was abandoned as an infant and spent the first five years of his life in a religious institution before being adopted by an American family, a spokesperson for MyHeritage, a genealogy website that helps people learn about their family roots, said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE.