Category: solved cases

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Kathy’s biological father Kathy reached out for help finding the identity of her biological father. Her mother had told her it was a man named Robert McKinnon, the man known to be her father, but Kathy’s DNA results were seemingly not showing any relation to a McKinnon…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Andrew’s biological mother Andrew is a Canadian adoptee whose wife reached out for assistance with his search at the start of the year. They had found Andrew’s paternal side, but needed help with the maternal side. They knew Andrew’s biological mother’s name, which was a fairly common…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Marina’s paternal grandparents Marina reached out for help finding her paternal grandparents. Her father was adopted, and Marina had his birth registration that had his biological mother’s name (Sandra), and used this to find the residence of Sandra and her parents when Marina’s dad was born. When…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Matthew’s biological parents Matthew’s wife reached out for help with his search. He was adopted and knew his biological mother’s full name, and that she was from Newfoundland. I took a look at Matthew’s AncestryDNA matches and could quickly see that both of his biological parents were going…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Diane’s maternal grandfather Diane’s search was a quick one from earlier this month. Diane reached out in hopes of identifying her biological maternal grandfather. She had taken an AncestryDNA test and had already created a tree based on her line of maternal grandfather matches, but needed another…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Kimberly’s biological maternal great-grandparents Kimberly reached out to me recently for help finding her maternal grandfather Albert’s parents. She knew he had been born and adopted in Ontario in 1915, and had done an AncestryDNA test hoping to learn more. Though I wasn’t sure I’d be able…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Kenneth’s biological father Janine, who I helped last year, reached out to me last month to see if I could help out a new match of hers. Kenneth had popped up as a close match on Janine’s paternal side, which was the side I had researched for…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Gwen’s biological father Gwen’s search angel Kaylee reached out to me for help with finding Gwen’s biological father. She wanted to learn more about DNA, so I guided her through the process, and we put the pieces in place together. I explained to Kaylee how to sort…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Gianne’s biological parents Gianne is an adoptee who reached out for help finding her biological parents- her friend who I had helped two years ago thought I might be able to help her out. She had done an AncestryDNA test, and also had several papers of non…