Category: solved cases
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Meghan’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Meghan’s biological father Luke recently reached out for help with his family’s search. His mother Meghan did not know who her biological father was, and she had done a 23andMe test in hopes of finding out who he was. Her maternal side was known to her. Initially…
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Veronica’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Veronica’s biological father Veronica reached out for help identifying her biological father. She was not adopted, but she did not know who her biological father was. Veronica had done an AncestryDNA test and also uploaded to Gedmatch, where there was a close family type match around 1800cm.…
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Glenn’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Glenn’s biological father Glenn’s search for his biological parents had been started by my friend and fellow search angel Sarah, who had located his maternal family using Glenn’s adoption paperwork. His adoption information had stated that his biological father was Jewish, however testing on AncestryDNA proved otherwise,…
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Arnold’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Arnold’s biological father Arnold reached out for help identifying his biological father earlier this year. He had already located his biological mother, but needed some help with his paternal side, which he did not have any information about. I took a look at his AncestryDNA matches and…
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Matilda’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Matilda’s maternal great grandfather Matilda reached out for help earlier this year for help with her family mystery- it was nice to reconnect, as Matilda was an old schoolmate of mine. Matilda’s maternal grandmother Katherine had been adopted by her aunt and uncle, and they did not…
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Genevieve’s search
*All named have been changed. Search goal: Identify Genevieve’s paternal grandparents Genevieve reached out for help with a nearly century old mystery. She was looking to identify her biological paternal grandparents, as her father Daniel was adopted. Genevieve had done an AncestryDNA test, and also had a little bit of non-identifying information about her father’s…
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Valentina’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Valentina’s paternal grandfather Valentina reached out for help with identifying her paternal grandfather. Her father, John William Derksen, had never known who his biological father was, and she was eager to solve a 92 year old mystery. Valentina had done some good research already to get us…
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Carlotta’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Carlotta’s biological father Carlotta is an adoptee who reached out for help with finding her biological father. She knew her biological maternal side already, and even had some non-identifying information, but it just wasn’t aligning with her DNA results. I took a look at her AncestryDNA results…
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Alessia’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Alessia’s biological parents Alessia is a Canadian adoptee that reached out for help finding her biological families. She had her biological mother’s full name, and some decent non-identifying information about both her biological parents and their families. She had also taken an AncestryDNA test. Alessia invited me…
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Christine’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Christine’s paternal great grandparents Christine reached out for help earlier this year with her family mystery. Her paternal grandfather Edward had been adopted around the turn of the century, shortly after he was born in 1899, and she was in search of his biological parents. Christine had…
