Category: solved cases
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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…
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Gavin’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Gavin’s biological father Gavin is an adoptee that reached out for some help finding his biological father. Our mutual friend had helped him identify his biological mother, and additional Ancestry tests were pending to confirm that further. In the meantime, Gavin wanted to find his biological father,…
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Hannah’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Hannah’s biological father Hannah is an adoptee who reached out for help with finding her biological father. She had found her biological mother’s family, but her biological mother had unfortunately passed away, so Hannah took an AncestryDNA test in hopes of learning more about her biological family.…
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Lora’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Lora’s biological parents Lora is an adoptee that reached out several months ago for help finding her biological parents. She had a possible name for her biological mother, as well as non-identifying information for both parents. Lora had tested with AncestryDNA so I started by taking a…
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Connie’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Determine Connie’s relationship to a match, and find Connie’s biological father Connie initially reached out for help earlier this year with a question about one of her matches. Her first cousin’s child, Anna, was matching her around 1300cm, which is much higher than the expected first cousin once…
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Joseph’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Joseph’s biological father Joseph reached out for help finding his biological father. He had some non identifying information, including the year of birth for his biological father. He also knew his maternal side, which helped split his AncestryDNA matches into maternal/paternal easily. Joseph’s paternal matches split into…
Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy 