All tagged dna detective work
While I had always known that I was adopted, it wasn’t until my mom revealed the one piece of information my parents knew about my origins that I launched a search for my birth parents. I had been found on the back doorstep of a residence, estimated to be three days old, wrapped in a man’s black wool shirt and a blanket…
I’ve always known the name of the woman who gave birth to me, my birth mother. When I was 18 she found me and of course one of the first things I asked was who my father was and what his name is. She would never give me those answers. So at 35 years old, I decided to find them for myself…
In January 1996 on my 18th birthday, I learned Ray, the man I thought was my dad all my life wasn’t. I was shocked, a little devastated and, also relieved. He and my mom divorced when I was in kindergarten. I wasn’t close to him or most of his family. In hindsight I think secretly he and his parents always knew I wasn’t one of them….
"It says on the Ancestry.com website that this person is my first cousin! Can that be real!!?!?? What could this mean?"
