Combining DNA test types can give you a better picture of your overall genealogical relationship to someone else. DNA expert Diahan Southard shares an example from her family about how she used different DNA tests to solve an adoption mystery. Combine your autosomal...
Passport Applications for Genealogy: A Birth Mom’s Life
Using passport applications in genealogy can lead to family history discoveries! See how this intrepid researcher tracked down passport applications that weren’t online. And then see what he learned about the life of a birth mother after she gave up her child in the...
Major Pro Bono DNA Testing Initiative for Adoptees
MyHeritage Launches DNA Quest: A Major Pro Bono Initiative for Adoptees and Their Biological Families to Find Each Other via DNA Testing MyHeritage will distribute 15,000 DNA kits, worth over one million dollars, for free in the first phase of this initiative....
Adoptee DNA Test Leads to Emotional Mother-Daughter Reunion
Years after a 15-year old mother put her baby girl up for adoption, the two reunited after both tested with MyHeritage DNA. See how an adoptee DNA test led to a sweet reunion. Moms come in all shapes and sizes, and all have different stories. Sometimes, those stories...
DNA Testing for Adoptees: Searching for Biological Roots
DNA testing for adoptees (and others with unknown parentage) isn’t a last resort–use it along with other strategies to discover biological roots. Genetic genealogists CeCe Moore and Diahan Southard share five tips for getting started. Not long ago, I...
Adoption Research Success: “I Continued His Quest to Find His Birth Mother:”
Searching for birth parents? This adoption research success story involved several proven techniques: mapping DNA matches, research legwork–and years of patient determination. Adoption Research Inspiration This inspiring letter about adoption research came to me...
