Tag: short term searches

*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…

*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…

*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…

*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…

*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…

*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…

*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…

*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…

*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.…