Tag: solved cases
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Nathan’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Nathan’s biological parents. I met Nathan in a very unusual way- my biological mother was on a New Zealand cruise and made friends with a lady named Lisa from her hometown. Lisa happened to have done an AncestryDNA test, and had a top match that was a…
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Missing No More: Rene Bourrice’s Reappearance- from legal death in British Columbia to second life in Quebec
*Names of living people have been changed. My blog usually features stories of people searching for and reconnecting with their biological family members. This particular post is part of a search involving multiple generations of adoptions, and you can read the full story of that search here- Valerie’s search. This post is about an intriguing…
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Stella’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Stella’s maternal grandfather. Stella reached out for help recently with finding her mother’s biological father. Stella’s mom was adopted and she had found her maternal side, but was hoping to find more on the paternal side. I took a look at Stella’s AncestryDNA matches and got to…
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Pierce’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Pierce’s biological father Pierce reached out for help identifying his biological father. He had done an AncestryDNA test which revealed an NPE. Fortunately, his paternal matches were good which made for a quick ten minute search. Pierce’s paternal matches, all which were under 400 centimorgans, split into…
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Jane’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Jane’s paternal grandfather. Jane reached out for help identifying her paternal grandfather. Her father Harold was an adoptee and Jane had already found and connected with her paternal grandmother’s side, but her paternal grandfather side was proving a little more challenging. Her family was eager to solve…
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Miranda’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Miranda’s biological father Miranda is an adoptee who reached out for help with her paternal side. She had found and been in contact with her biological maternal relatives, but did not have any information to go on for her paternal side. Miranda added me as a collaborator…
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Robert’s search
*All names have been changed Search goal: Identify Robert’s biological mother Robert is an adoptee who reached out for help with finding his biological mother. He had done an AncestryDNA test and matched with two paternal half siblings, but they were also searching for their biological father, so Robert’s biological father (who as an aside,…
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Ivy’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Ivy’s biological mother Ivy is an adoptee who reached out for help finding her biological mother. An AncestryDNA test had matched her with a paternal half sibling, but she was still in search of her maternal side. Ivy knew her own birth name, but had no other…
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Merida’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Merida’s biological parents Merida reached out for help with her search for her biological parents. She knew her last name at birth as well as her the first initial of her birth last name, but that was all the info she had. I took a look at…
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Victoria’s search
*All names have been changed. Search goal: Identify Victoria’s biological father. Victoria is a friend of someone else I had helped recently, and Victoria had reached out for help with her own search for her biological father. Victoria was adopted and knew who her biological mother was, but unfortunately she had passed away before they…
Lauren’s Genetic Genealogy 