Tag: solved cases

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Pamela’s biological mother Pamela reached out a while back for help finding her biological mother. She had found her biological father’s side through DNA testing with Ancestry, but she had fewer matches on her maternal side. However, her search was a fast one thanks to helpful relatives…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Susan’s biological parents Susan’s search was one that took about eight months and many people helped us out with her search. This is a longer read, so get comfy. Susan was born in BC and had done an AncestryDNA test, a 23andMe test, and had uploaded to…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Cassidy’s biological father My friend and fellow genetic genealogist Jane reached out for help with Cassidy’s search. Cassidy was searching for her biological father, and her paternal side had a bit of east coast endogamy, along with several paternal matches also adopted or without trees, that was…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Kristen’s biological mother Kristen is an adoptee who reached out for help a few months back to find her biological mother. Her AncestryDNA test had matched her with a few paternal half siblings, so that side had been figured out. She also had non-identifying information about her…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Roger’s paternal grandfather Roger contacted me earlier this year for help finding the identity of his paternal grandfather. Roger’s father wasn’t an adoptee, but there was a 105 year old family mystery of who his father was. Roger knew it was likely between the two husbands of…

*All names have been changed. Search goals: Find Kendra’s biological father, and find Kendra’s maternal half siblings Kendra reached out for help with assistance in finding her biological father, as well as her maternal half siblings. She had heard that her biological father was between one of two men who knew her biological mother. I…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find paternal great grandmother Richard’s wife Nellie reached out to me a while back for help with Richard’s family mystery. Richard’s family did not know the biological mother of his paternal grandmother, who had been adopted in the early 1900s as a child. They had found Richard’s paternal…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Kathy’s biological father Kathy reached out for help finding the identity of her biological father. Her mother had told her it was a man named Robert McKinnon, the man known to be her father, but Kathy’s DNA results were seemingly not showing any relation to a McKinnon…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Andrew’s biological mother Andrew is a Canadian adoptee whose wife reached out for assistance with his search at the start of the year. They had found Andrew’s paternal side, but needed help with the maternal side. They knew Andrew’s biological mother’s name, which was a fairly common…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Marina’s paternal grandparents Marina reached out for help finding her paternal grandparents. Her father was adopted, and Marina had his birth registration that had his biological mother’s name (Sandra), and used this to find the residence of Sandra and her parents when Marina’s dad was born. When…