Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy

Category: solved cases

  • Sara’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Sara’s biological father Sara is an adoptee who was looking for help finding her birth father. She had found her birthmother, and had tested with AncestryDNA, so Sara knew what matches were from her maternal side. She also had some non identifying information, which gave us information…

  • Patrick’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Patrick’s biological father Patrick is an adoptee who reached out for help finding his birth father. Another search angel had helped find Patrick’s birthmother, but she had passed away, leaving Patrick with just some non-identifying information that was hopefully correct, and his AncestryDNA results. He knew the…

  • Danielle’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Danielle’s biological father Danielle is an adoptee who reached out for help in search of her biological father. She had no non-identifying information, but had done an AncestryDNA test. She sent me an invite to her match list and I got started. I’ll admit, at first I…

  • David’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find David’s biological father David is an adoptee who reached out for help with his search for his birth father. He had some non identifying information that included his birth father’s approximate age when David was born, his occupation, and that the family had ties to Nova Scotia.…

  • Randall’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Randall’s biological parents Randall is an Ontarian adoptee who had been searching for his biological family for years. He had his live birth registration, which included a name “Margaret”, age, and address for his birthmom. Randall’s daughter Kayla (who I communicated with for this search) had found…

  • Richard’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Richard’s biological parents Richard is an Ontarian adoptee who was curious about his biological origins. He reached out for help and I took a look at his AncestryDNA and 23andMe matches. Richard also had some non-identifying information that he sent me a few days after I had…

  • Derek’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Derek’s biological mother This one is actually one of the first searches I ever did, near the end of 2020. I was cleaning up trees on Ancestry recently and found that I had forgotten to write this one up. Derek’s search is unique because I only used…

  • Dean’s search

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    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Dean’s biological mother Dean is an American adoptee who reached out through one of my family members, in search of his biological mother. He had recently matched with a paternal half brother and a first cousin, which helped confirm his biological father’s identity. Unfortunately, he was deceased,…

  • Kyra’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Kyra’s biological parents Kyra is an adoptee from Ontario who reached out for help finding her biological parents. She knew her biological mother’s name and where she had been born, but needed some help tracking her down. Kyra had tested with AncestryDNA and luckily had some excellent…

  • Katherine’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Katherine’s biological parents Katherine reached out to me around the end of October for help finding her biological parents. She had been adopted in the 1960s and was looking to see if her biological parents were still alive and if she had any siblings. She only had…