Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy

Tag: adoption

  • Michelle’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Michelle’s biological parents Michelle is an adoptee who reached out for help with her search after contacting one of her matches, Katherine, who was also an adoptee, who I helped three years ago. Katherine had messaged me saying she had a new match that needed help and…

  • Mariana’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Mariana’s biological parents. Mariana reached out for help with her search for her biological parents. She had a little bit of identifying information about her family, including the first names of her biological parents, and had done an AncestryDNA test too. Mariana had done some research already…

  • Janet’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Janet’s maternal grandparents Sometimes, helping one person with their search ends up helping another, and that is the case with Janet’s search. About two years into Kayla’s search, (a family friend of mine whose search took almost three years to solve), Janet popped up as a match…

  • Belle’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Belle’s biological father Belle’s daughter Kenzie reached out for help with her mother’s search. Belle was born and adopted in Ontario in the 1940s. They had already found Belle’s maternal side, and her biological mother had been living in the USA when Belle was conceived. All they…

  • Ruby’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Ruby’s biological parents Ruby reached out for help identifying her biological parents. She only had her adoption order papers, had done a 23andMe DNA test, and knew the approximate age of her biological mother. Ruby was waiting to receive the rest of her adoption information, and planned…

  • Weston’s search

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    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Weston’s biological parents Weston’s wife reached out recently (with his permission) for help with his search for his biological parents. Weston had some non identifying information about his parents, but no first or last names. He had also taken a DNA test with 23andMe and uploaded to…

  • Glenn’s search

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    *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,…