Author: laurenmrobilliard
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Austin’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Austin’s biological maternal grandparents Austin is a son of an adoptee who reached out about eight months ago for help finding his mother’s biological parents. She had passed away, so he was unable to get his mother’s original birth registration, but Austin had a few bits of…
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Kendall’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Kendall’s biological parents. Kendall reached out for help after I had successfully helped a friend with her own search. Kendall was adopted and was looking for her biological parents. She had some non-identifying info and had taken an AncestryDNA test. Kendall invited me to her matches as…
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Carmen’s search
*All names have been changed Search goals: Identify Carmen’s biological parents and locate her siblings Author note: While this search is considered partially complete instead of fully complete like the others I post, I am publishing it now to highlight how access to different resources that become available over time can help with an adoption…
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Jesse’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Jesse’s biological father Jesse is an adoptee that reached out for help finding his biological father. He had no information about him, but had hopes that an AncestryDNA test would help him find paternal relatives in his search for health information. I took a look at Jesse’s…
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Lindsey’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Lindsey’s biological father Lindsey reached out for help with finding her biological father. She had taken an AncestryDNA test and discovered she had had an NPE, and had discovered a paternal half sibling who was also searching for their biological father. Lindsey and her sibling had done…
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Kayla’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Kayla’s paternal grandparents Kayla’s search is one of the first ones I ever started, nearly three years ago. We both never gave up and we believed answers would be found- and at last, they were found. Kayla is a family friend, and so it was extra meaningful…
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Kerry’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Kerry’s maternal grandfather Kerry reached out earlier this year for help identifying her maternal grandfather. Her mother had never known who her father was, and Kerry decided to see if AncestryDNA could help with their family’s mystery. Kerry knew her maternal grandmother’s side, so I started by…
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Troy’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Confirm the identity of Troy’s biological father Troy reached out to me for help with his own search after I reached out to him regarding another search that is currently in progress. While Troy is related to that match on his maternal side, he needed help confirming the…
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Melvin’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Melvin’s biological parents Melvin’s wife Rina reached out to me for help with his search. Melvin was in search of his biological family- he didn’t have any of his adoption information, but he had done an AncestryDNA test, so I was invited to his matches as a…
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Vanessa’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Vanessa’s maternal great grandparents Vanessa reached out for help earlier this year with her search. Her maternal grandfather, Walter, had been born in 1912 and later adopted. She did have his paperwork, which amazingly listed full names of both of Walter’s biological parents. Vanessa was seeing some…
Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy 