Author: laurenmrobilliard
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Julie’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Julie’s paternal grandfather. Julie reached out for help recently for help with identifying her paternal grandfather. Her father was a Canadian adoptee born in the 1940s. Julie had done some great research of her own already and had identified her paternal grandmother Daisy, but needed some help…
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Stanley’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Stanley’s biological father. Stanley is an adoptee that reached out for help finding his biological family. He had some of his adoption paperwork, and my fellow searcher Sophie had been helping him for a little bit. She had located his biological mother, but Stanley needed help with…
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Nellie’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Nellie’s biological father Nellie’s daughter Vanessa reached out for help finding her mother’s biological father. Nellie wasn’t adopted, but had never known the identity of her biological father. Both Vanessa and Nellie had taken an AncestryDNA test so I showed Vanessa how to add me as a…
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Valerie’s search
*All names have been changed, except names of deceased persons on the Bourrice family line. See Missing No More: Rene Bourrice’s Reappearance- from legal death in British Columbia to second life in Quebec for more info. Search goals: I have been very hopeful for the last nearly three years that I would be able to…
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Martha’s search
*All names has been changed except Sharon and Rod’s. Search goal: Identify Martha’s biological father. Martha is another search that came my way thanks to my biological mother Sharon. Her husband Rod’s maternal half aunt is Martha, who was born in 1926 in Australia and has never known the the identity of her biological father.…
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Nathan’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Nathan’s biological parents. I met Nathan in a very unusual way- my biological mother was on a New Zealand cruise and made friends with a lady named Lisa from her hometown. Lisa happened to have done an AncestryDNA test, and had a top match that was a…
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Missing No More: Rene Bourrice’s Reappearance- from legal death in British Columbia to second life in Quebec
*Names of living people have been changed. My blog usually features stories of people searching for and reconnecting with their biological family members. This particular post is part of a search involving multiple generations of adoptions, and you can read the full story of that search here- Valerie’s search. This post is about an intriguing…
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Stella’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Stella’s maternal grandfather. Stella reached out for help recently with finding her mother’s biological father. Stella’s mom was adopted and she had found her maternal side, but was hoping to find more on the paternal side. I took a look at Stella’s AncestryDNA matches and got to…
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Pierce’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Pierce’s biological father Pierce reached out for help identifying his biological father. He had done an AncestryDNA test which revealed an NPE. Fortunately, his paternal matches were good which made for a quick ten minute search. Pierce’s paternal matches, all which were under 400 centimorgans, split into…
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Jane’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Jane’s paternal grandfather. Jane reached out for help identifying her paternal grandfather. Her father Harold was an adoptee and Jane had already found and connected with her paternal grandmother’s side, but her paternal grandfather side was proving a little more challenging. Her family was eager to solve…
Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy 