Believe it or not, nearly 34 years after she was told her kids had died in a car crash, a mother has been reunited with her children -- thanks to the Internet, a media report said.

According to the 'Daily Express', Vicki Rohring thought her son Scott and daughter Karen had been killed in October 1976 on their way back from staying with their father; but the "crash" was a lie told by ex-husband Jimmy Black in a bid to get custody of the youngsters.

In fact, the family was reunited after the determined siblings tracked down their mother on the web.

"I will never lose my children again. Never. Never.

I truly believed in my heart they were still alive. It is a dream come true to see them," 63-year-old Mrs Rohring was quoted by the British tabloid as telling US chat show 'Today'.

Mrs Rohring said she received a telephone call telling her the children had died. "I didn't know where the accident was and where they were buried. There was nothing," she said.

Living in Rochester, New York, she hired private detectives to search for them. Her ex-husband's family and the police refused to help.

But Scott, now 41, and Karen, 39, were curious about their mother after their father told them conflicting stories, saying she was dead or abroad. Their friends placed an advert on an Internet site and private detectives found enough clues for Scott to telephone his mother.

"I had to convince her at first, but she soon knew," said Scott, who lives with his father Blach in Atlanta.

"I felt like this emptiness that was in my heart filled up instantly," said Mrs Rohring, who has six grandchildren and a great-grandchild on the way.

Black, 64, denies saying the children had died in a road mishap.