Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy

Author: laurenmrobilliard

  • Valentina’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Valentina’s paternal grandfather Valentina reached out for help with identifying her paternal grandfather. Her father, John William Derksen, had never known who his biological father was, and she was eager to solve a 92 year old mystery. Valentina had done some good research already to get us…

  • Carlotta’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Carlotta’s biological father Carlotta is an adoptee who reached out for help with finding her biological father. She knew her biological maternal side already, and even had some non-identifying information, but it just wasn’t aligning with her DNA results. I took a look at her AncestryDNA results…

  • Alessia’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Alessia’s biological parents Alessia is a Canadian adoptee that reached out for help finding her biological families. She had her biological mother’s full name, and some decent non-identifying information about both her biological parents and their families. She had also taken an AncestryDNA test. Alessia invited me…

  • Christine’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Christine’s paternal great grandparents Christine reached out for help earlier this year with her family mystery. Her paternal grandfather Edward had been adopted around the turn of the century, shortly after he was born in 1899, and she was in search of his biological parents. Christine had…

  • Lena’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Locate Lena’s biological mother Lena reached out for help locating her biological mother. She had a considerable amount of information: her biological mother’s full name (Betty Pearson), age, birthdate, birth location, names of both parents, and even some details about her siblings. Lena even had a yearbook picture…

  • Madelaine’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Madelaine’s maternal great grandparents. Madelaine reached out for help earlier this month with her family’s search. Her maternal grandmother Christine had been adopted at a young age in the 1940s. All they knew was her birthdate, possible town of birth and that she had some siblings. Christine…

  • Joyce’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goals: Identify Joyce’s paternal great grandparents, and find Joyce’s paternal grandfather’s original name Joyce reached out for help with researching her paternal grandfather John. John was born in Denmark, and Joyce had an approximate birthdate in the early 1880s and possible birth location in one of two small towns…

  • Liza’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Liza’s biological mother Liza reached out for help identifying her biological mother. She initially had tested on 23andMe and found several paternal half siblings who were welcoming to her. Unfortunately, her biological father had passed away so he could not be asked for information about Liza’s biological…

  • Simon’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Simon’s biological parents Simon’s former wife Maria reached out (with his permission) for help with finding Simon’s biological parents. He was adopted and had little info, only knowing that his biological parents were fairly young when they had him. Simon had done an AncestryDNA test in hopes…

  • Reuben’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Reuben’s biological father Rueben is an adoptee that reached out for help at the beginning of the year for help with his search for his biological father. The person who had been helping him previously thought they had identified Reuben’s biological father, but could not explain or…