Tag: short term searches
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Martha’s search
*All names has been changed except Sharon and Rod’s. Search goal: Identify Martha’s biological father. Martha is another search that came my way thanks to my biological mother Sharon. Her husband Rod’s maternal half aunt is Martha, who was born in 1926 in Australia and has never known the the identity of her biological father.…
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Nathan’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Nathan’s biological parents. I met Nathan in a very unusual way- my biological mother was on a New Zealand cruise and made friends with a lady named Lisa from her hometown. Lisa happened to have done an AncestryDNA test, and had a top match that was a…
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Stella’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Stella’s maternal grandfather. Stella reached out for help recently with finding her mother’s biological father. Stella’s mom was adopted and she had found her maternal side, but was hoping to find more on the paternal side. I took a look at Stella’s AncestryDNA matches and got to…
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Pierce’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Pierce’s biological father Pierce reached out for help identifying his biological father. He had done an AncestryDNA test which revealed an NPE. Fortunately, his paternal matches were good which made for a quick ten minute search. Pierce’s paternal matches, all which were under 400 centimorgans, split into…
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Miranda’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Miranda’s biological father Miranda is an adoptee who reached out for help with her paternal side. She had found and been in contact with her biological maternal relatives, but did not have any information to go on for her paternal side. Miranda added me as a collaborator…
Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy 