Category: solved cases

  • Dina’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Dina’s biological parents Dina is a Canadian adoptee who reached out for help finding her birth parents. She had a DNA match Janice that was also helping her, but they were getting stuck, so I was happy to join the team. Dina had her birthmother’s name (Hannah…

  • Candace’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Candace’s biological father Candace is a Canadian adoptee who had been searching for her birth father for many years. She had met her birthmother, and her maternal half sister had tested, which helped separate Candace’s matches from maternal and paternal. Candace also had a bit of non…

  • Shane’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Shane’s biological parents Shane is a Canadian adoptee that reached out for help in search of his birthparents. All the information he had was his birthmother’s full name, and approximate age. With that in mind, I took a look at his Ancestry results and got to work.…

  • Tracy’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Tracy’s biological father Tracy is an adoptee that was hoping to identify her biological father. She had done an Ancestry DNA test and had a ton of matches. However, due to some adoptions up her maternal side, she wasn’t sure which matches were from what side. Tracy…

  • Maria’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Maria’s biological parents Maria is an adoptee whose daughter reached out for help with her mom’s search. All they knew was that her mom had been born in Montreal. Maria’s daughter added me as a collaborator on her mom’s Ancestry results, and I took a look. I…

  • Christina’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Christina’s biological parents Christina is an adoptee that reached out for help finding her biological parents. She knew her birthmother had also been adopted, and Christina had done an AncestryDNA test in hopes of finding her biological families. I took a look at Christina’s matches and could…

  • Nick’s search

    *All names have been changed *Search goal: Find Nick’s biological parents. A side note, this is so far the search that has taken the longest time to solve- it took 18 months to identify Nick’s birthmother. Nick is an adoptee whose sister-in-law Sandra had reached out to me for help with Nick’s search. Nick had…

  • Rosemary’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Rosemary’s biological parents Rosemary is an adoptee who was looking for some help identifying her birth parents. She had done an AncestryDNA test and was waiting on information from her province’s government. She also knew the approximate years her birthparents were born in, her birthmother’s last name,…

  • Aaron’s search

    Search goal: Find Aaron’s biological parents *All names have been changed Aaron is a Canadian adoptee whose wife reached out to me for help finding Aaron’s biological parents. Aaron had done a DNA test and knew his birth name, but that was all the details he had. I took a look at his Ancestry matches…

  • Janine’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Janine’s biological parents Janine is an adoptee who reached out for help with finding her biological parents. She had done a lot of her own research on her paternal side, but wasn’t sure who her biological father was. She also knew her birthmom’s maiden name. Janine had…