Computers and Internet have become so much part of our everyday lives that we can use them to do almost anything, even solve your own kidnapping.

Nejdra Nance had doubts that the family raising her was not her blood family. She didn’t look like them and she didn’t even have a birth certificate or social security card.

It turns out that the woman being raised as Nejdra Nance was really Carlina White. Nance had been kidnapped on Aug. 4, 1987 by a strange woman pretending to be a nurse. She was hospitalized for a fever in Harlem Hospital, just a few weeks after her birth.

NYPD was unable to track her kidnapper, leaving the case unsolved. Nance was raised in Bridgeport, Conn., by a woman named Ann Pettway.

Twenty-three years later, Nejdra Nance went on the website for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and typed in her birth date. On the website, she found an age-progressed photo of a girl who looked like her and had the same birthday.

“This is somebody who knew something was wrong in her life and took the initiative. She said, ‘Things aren’t the way they should be,’ and so she reached out. All we did was follow the information that she gave us,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Nance then got in touch with the organization and they contacted her biological mother, Joy White, on Jan. 4. After White and Nance talked, White contacted the NYPD to see if they could be of any help.

Detective Martin Brown, the detective who got the call, said, “It sounded legitimate and credible, so I had Missing Persons reach out to her.” DNA tests were administered to Joy White and her ex-husband, Carl Tyson. The results confirmed that Nejdra Nance was Carlina White, their daughter.

Carlina White’s biological family was excited to see her. Her aunt, Lisa White, said, “I’m just so happy she’s back. I said, ‘you’re going to get so many hugs! You’re going to be sick of us.’ She said, ‘you know what, I never had hugs like that.’ I’m just happy she’s back. Thank you God thank you Jesus. I don’t want her to ever go back I want her to stay here.”Carlina White also has a 6-year-old daughter named Samani, who was also introduced to her biological family.

Ann Pettway, the woman who kidnapped Carlina White, has surrendered to police in Bridgeport, Conn., according to officials. Pettway, 49, has many aliases and a long criminal history with crimes such as embezzlement, forgery, theft, and drugs listed. She is currently on probation until 2012 for embezzlement in North Carolina.

So far, no charges have been filed against Pettway pertaining to the kidnapping.

• Essence Lee