Tag: solved cases

  • Alaina’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Alaina’s maternal grandparents Alaina reached out for help recently with finding her maternal grandparents. Alaina had taken an AncestryDNA test and knew the first initial of her mom’s birth last name “N”, but that was all the information she had. Alaina had done a great job of…

  • John’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find John’s maternal grandparents. John’s daughter Sophie reached out recently for help finding John’s maternal grandparents. John’s mother Bonnie had been adopted, and they knew her birthday but nothing else. John had tested with AncestryDNA in hopes of finding more information. I took a look at John’s matches…

  • Anna’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Anna’s biological father Anna reached out for help a while back finding her biological father. She had been told his full name, but had been unable to find him, and Ancestry matches were not responding to her. So I offered to help her out and see what…

  • Jenna’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Jenna’s biological father Jenna reached out for help recently with finding her biological father. She knew her maternal side, and had taken an AncestryDNA test, so I took a look at her matches and got to work. Her paternal matches split into two distinct family groups, which…

  • Coral’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Coral’s biological parents Coral is an adoptee that reached out for help finding her biological parents. She knew her biological mother’s name and approximate birth year, and had done an AncestryDNA test in hopes of finding more. Coral’s matches split into 4 groups, each representing one of…

  • Greg’s search

    *All names have been changed Search goal: Find Greg’s biological parents Greg is an adoptee that reached out for help finding his biological parents. He had no information but had done an Ancestry DNA test. So I took a look at his matches and got started. Greg’s matches split into 3 groups for each parent.…

  • Sandra’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Sandra’s biological father. Sandra reached out for help earlier this year for help finding her biological father. She knew her maternal side, but had no information to go off of for her biological father’s side. Fortunately, she had some good matches on Ancestry which helped immensely. Sandra’s…

  • Trudy’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Trudy’s biological father Trudy reached out for help looking for her biological father, who she had heard was a man named Robert. She had done an AncestryDNA test and was hoping to find him. I took a look at Trudy’s matches and did the Leeds method on…

  • Terra’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Terra’s biological father. Terra reached out for help with finding her biological father. She had tested with AncestryDNA and had found her maternal side. She also had a maternal half sibling that had tested, so this helped split her matches up. She also had some non-identifying information…

  • Gail’s search

    *All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Gail’s biological father Gail’s daughter reached out to me for help finding her mom’s biological father. Gail had found her birthmom, who had given her a name of the man who may have been her birth father, but they needed help determining if it was really him,…