ALTOONA, Pa. — Some may call it fate, some luck, others even coincidence. But when Daniel Moringiello found his blood brother after roughly 60 years of wondering and searching, he knew exactly what it was: divine intervention.

Born James Joseph Morrison, Mr. Moringiello was adopted from the now-closed Angel Guardian Home in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1952 at just 7 months old. He was brought into a New York Italian home by, according to Mr. Moringiello, some of the “greatest parents you could ask for.” They were up front with Mr. Moringiello from the beginning about him being adopted, and he always wondered what happened with his birth parents to make them decide to give him up.

“I was content with the parents I had,” Mr. Moringiello said, but “it was always there in the back of your mind: Who were they?”

Mr. Moringiello and his wife, Cynthia, lived in New York until he retired in 2005. The couple decided to move to Blair County — namely Hollidaysburg — due to their love for the Horseshoe Curve. That is a local tourist attraction, a curving railroad track build to get trains over the Allegheny Mountains.