Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy

Category: solved cases

  • John’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find John’s maternal grandparents. John’s daughter Sophie reached out recently for help finding John’s maternal grandparents. John’s mother Bonnie had been adopted, and they knew her birthday but nothing else. John had tested with AncestryDNA in hopes of finding more information. I took a look at John’s matches…

  • Anna’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Anna’s biological father Anna reached out for help a while back finding her biological father. She had been told his full name, but had been unable to find him, and Ancestry matches were not responding to her. So I offered to help her out and see what…

  • Jenna’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Jenna’s biological father Jenna reached out for help recently with finding her biological father. She knew her maternal side, and had taken an AncestryDNA test, so I took a look at her matches and got to work. Her paternal matches split into two distinct family groups, which…

  • Lesley’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Lesley’s maternal grandfather Lesley reached out earlier this year for help finding her maternal grandfather. Lesley’s mother, who had passed away, did not know who her biological father was, only that his last name may have been Nelson and that he was from Scotland, had moved to…

  • Coral’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Coral’s biological parents Coral is an adoptee that reached out for help finding her biological parents. She knew her biological mother’s name and approximate birth year, and had done an AncestryDNA test in hopes of finding more. Coral’s matches split into 4 groups, each representing one of…

  • Greg’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Greg’s biological parents Greg is an adoptee that reached out for help finding his biological parents. He had no information but had done an Ancestry DNA test. So I took a look at his matches and got started. Greg’s matches split into 3 groups for each parent.…

  • Sandra’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Sandra’s biological father. Sandra reached out for help earlier this year for help finding her biological father. She knew her maternal side, but had no information to go off of for her biological father’s side. Fortunately, she had some good matches on Ancestry which helped immensely. Sandra’s…

  • Sadie’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Sadie’s maternal grandparents Sadie reached out a few months ago for help finding her maternal grandparents. Her mother, who had passed away, was adopted. and Sadie was curious about her maternal ancestry, so she had taken an AncestryDNA test in hopes of discovering more. Sadie did not…

  • Warren’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Warren’s biological parents Warren is a Canadian adoptee whose wife reached out for help with his search. He had done an Ancestry DNA test, and had a little bit of information about his birthparents. He also knew his birth last name. On Ancestry, his matches split into…

  • Trudy’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Trudy’s biological father Trudy reached out for help looking for her biological father, who she had heard was a man named Robert. She had done an AncestryDNA test and was hoping to find him. I took a look at Trudy’s matches and did the Leeds method on…