Category: solved cases

  • Lena’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Locate Lena’s biological mother Lena reached out for help locating her biological mother. She had a considerable amount of information: her biological mother’s full name (Betty Pearson), age, birthdate, birth location, names of both parents, and even some details about her siblings. Lena even had a yearbook picture…

  • Madelaine’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Madelaine’s maternal great grandparents. Madelaine reached out for help earlier this month with her family’s search. Her maternal grandmother Christine had been adopted at a young age in the 1940s. All they knew was her birthdate, possible town of birth and that she had some siblings. Christine…

  • Joyce’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goals: Identify Joyce’s paternal great grandparents, and find Joyce’s paternal grandfather’s original name Joyce reached out for help with researching her paternal grandfather John. John was born in Denmark, and Joyce had an approximate birthdate in the early 1880s and possible birth location in one of two small towns…

  • Liza’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Liza’s biological mother Liza reached out for help identifying her biological mother. She initially had tested on 23andMe and found several paternal half siblings who were welcoming to her. Unfortunately, her biological father had passed away so he could not be asked for information about Liza’s biological…

  • Simon’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Simon’s biological parents Simon’s former wife Maria reached out (with his permission) for help with finding Simon’s biological parents. He was adopted and had little info, only knowing that his biological parents were fairly young when they had him. Simon had done an AncestryDNA test in hopes…

  • Reuben’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Reuben’s biological father Rueben is an adoptee that reached out for help at the beginning of the year for help with his search for his biological father. The person who had been helping him previously thought they had identified Reuben’s biological father, but could not explain or…

  • Julie’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Julie’s paternal grandfather. Julie reached out for help recently for help with identifying her paternal grandfather. Her father was a Canadian adoptee born in the 1940s. Julie had done some great research of her own already and had identified her paternal grandmother Daisy, but needed some help…

  • Stanley’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Stanley’s biological father. Stanley is an adoptee that reached out for help finding his biological family. He had some of his adoption paperwork, and my fellow searcher Sophie had been helping him for a little bit. She had located his biological mother, but Stanley needed help with…

  • Nellie’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Nellie’s biological father Nellie’s daughter Vanessa reached out for help finding her mother’s biological father. Nellie wasn’t adopted, but had never known the identity of her biological father. Both Vanessa and Nellie had taken an AncestryDNA test so I showed Vanessa how to add me as a…

  • Valerie’s search

    *All names have been changed, except names of deceased persons on the Bourrice family line. See Missing No More: Rene Bourrice’s Reappearance- from legal death in British Columbia to second life in Quebec for more info. Search goals: I have been very hopeful for the last nearly three years that I would be able to…