Tag: solved cases

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Kerry’s maternal grandfather Kerry reached out earlier this year for help identifying her maternal grandfather. Her mother had never known who her father was, and Kerry decided to see if AncestryDNA could help with their family’s mystery. Kerry knew her maternal grandmother’s side, so I started by…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Confirm the identity of Troy’s biological father Troy reached out to me for help with his own search after I reached out to him regarding another search that is currently in progress. While Troy is related to that match on his maternal side, he needed help confirming the…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Vanessa’s maternal great grandparents Vanessa reached out for help earlier this year with her search. Her maternal grandfather, Walter, had been born in 1912 and later adopted. She did have his paperwork, which amazingly listed full names of both of Walter’s biological parents. Vanessa was seeing some…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Gavin’s biological father Gavin is an adoptee that reached out for some help finding his biological father. Our mutual friend had helped him identify his biological mother, and additional Ancestry tests were pending to confirm that further. In the meantime, Gavin wanted to find his biological father,…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Hannah’s biological father Hannah is an adoptee who reached out for help with finding her biological father. She had found her biological mother’s family, but her biological mother had unfortunately passed away, so Hannah took an AncestryDNA test in hopes of learning more about her biological family.…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Lora’s biological parents Lora is an adoptee that reached out several months ago for help finding her biological parents. She had a possible name for her biological mother, as well as non-identifying information for both parents. Lora had tested with AncestryDNA so I started by taking a…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Determine Connie’s relationship to a match, and find Connie’s biological father Connie initially reached out for help earlier this year with a question about one of her matches. Her first cousin’s child, Anna, was matching her around 1300cm, which is much higher than the expected first cousin once…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Joseph’s biological father Joseph reached out for help finding his biological father. He had some non identifying information, including the year of birth for his biological father. He also knew his maternal side, which helped split his AncestryDNA matches into maternal/paternal easily. Joseph’s paternal matches split into…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify George’s biological parents George is an adoptee who reached out for help finding his biological parents. He had his original birth registration, so he knew his biological mother’s name and age, but that was all the information he had. He took an AncestryDNA test in hopes of…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Daniel’s biological parents Daniel reached out for help identifying his biological parents. He was adopted and had some information about his biological families. Daniel had also taken an AncestryDNA test and was matched with many close relatives. Daniel was matched in the first cousin range to a…