TWO women who say they were switched at birth more than 50 years ago have shared how they made the shocking discovery.

Tina Ennis said she was trying to find information about her grandfather when she came across something she was not expecting.

Ennis and Kathryn Jones claim that Ennis was switched at birth at Duncan Physicians and Surgeons Hospital in Oklahoma in 1964.

According to a lawsuit reviewed by The Daily Beast, Ennis and her 26-year-old daughter took a DNA test from Ancestry.com in 2019, as Ennis wanted to track down Jones' father, who left home when Jones was young.

However, when the test results came back, Ennis did not recognize any of the names listed as relatives.

Confused by the results, Ennis convinced Jones to take a test.

The results showed that neither Ennis nor her daughter were part of Jones' family tree.

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When a puzzled Ennis called the website's support line, she was reportedly told:“ You know, you find out some interesting things on Ancestry.”

Ennis' daughter, convinced her mother must have been switched at birth, began searching online for women born on the same day at the hospital as her mother.

That's how she found Jill Lopez, who reportedly looked very similar to Jones.

When Ennis reached out to Lopez via Facebook, Lopez agreed to take a DNA test, which allegedly confirmed that Jones was related to Lopez.

“I felt like I was losing my daughter and my grandchildren too,” Jones told The Daily Beast.

While the three women have met and shared their stories, they say they are still struggling with the discovery.

Ennis' alleged real parents, who raised Lopez, sadly passed away before they learned of the reported switch, so Ennis never got to meet them.

“Jill got to be with my real parents, and now she gets to be with my parents I grew up with,” Ennis said.

“I didn’t know what to think about it at first, but the more I think about it, it makes me really sad.”

Ennis has only seen her alleged biological siblings a handful of times, and she doesn't see Lopez often.

Jones, on her part, feels guilty about the decades she missed in her biological daughter's life, and is also afraid of what it all means for her relationship with Ennis.

Both Ennis and Lopez are married with children and still living in Oklahoma. Ennis is a postal service carrier and Lopez is in real estate.

The Sun has reached out to Duncan Regional Hospital, which took over liability for Duncan Physicians and Surgeons Hospital after a merge, according to the lawsuit.

Duncan Regional Hospital has previously denied the allegations, arguing it is not the same entity where the two women were allegedly switched.

A judge denied the hospital's motion to dismiss the case on these grounds last month.

Other people who claim to have been switched at birth have shared how the revelation affected them.

Last month, a boy who was raised in poverty after reportedly being swapped at birth explained how he abandoned his "mom" who raised him to live with his real family.

And another man who claimed to be switched at birth revealed he resents his mom for not swapping him back because he grew up dirt poor while the other kid was rich.

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