Tag: solved cases

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Nicole’s biological parents Nicole is an adoptee that reached out for help with finding her biological father. She had actually met her biological mother decades ago, but had lost contact with her, and only knew her middle name. Nicole had tested on Ancestry hoping to find some…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Tammy’s biological father Tammy’s search started out unusually- she had posted asking a question about why two of her maternal matches were matching all of her paternal matches. I decided to help her out with why this might be, and then offered to help further with her…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Angela’s biological parents Angela is a Canadian adoptee that reached out for help tracing her biological family tree. She was born in Montreal, and her her AncestryDNA test revealed that she was actually of half Irish and half Puerto Rican descent- no French to be found. It…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Susie’s paternal grandparents Susie reached out for help recently for help finding her paternal grandparents. Her father, who had passed away, had been adopted, and she was curious about her biological family. Susie knew her dad’s birth name and his birthmother’s profession at the time he was…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Lindsay’s biological father. Lindsay is a Canadian adoptee that needed some help finding her biological father. She had connected with her maternal side, but unfortunately her birthmother had passed away, so she had only a few details about her birthfather. She had done an Ancestry test in…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Locate Tori’s biological father Tori reached out for help earlier this year finding her biological father. She knew who he was and had limited details, but he had a very common last name which made searching for him hard. I encouraged her to do an AncestryDNA test to…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Kaia’s biological father Kaia is an adoptee that needed some help finding her biological father. She had done an AncestryDNA test and matched with a full maternal uncle, which made tracking down her birthmother easy. However, she needed some help with her maternal matches. Kaia’s paternal matches…

*All names have been changed. Search goal: Find Elaina’s biological parents Elaina is a Canadian adoptee that reached out for help with finding her biological parents. She had her birth registration and adoption papers, which had lots of identifying information about her maternal side of the family. It had a little bit about her paternal…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Dina’s biological parents Dina is a Canadian adoptee who reached out for help finding her birth parents. She had a DNA match Janice that was also helping her, but they were getting stuck, so I was happy to join the team. Dina had her birthmother’s name (Hannah…

*All names have been changed Search goal: Find Candace’s biological father Candace is a Canadian adoptee who had been searching for her birth father for many years. She had met her birthmother, and her maternal half sister had tested, which helped separate Candace’s matches from maternal and paternal. Candace also had a bit of non…