CK-Mom-of-2

Oh, now I realize you said your mom is on 23andme. Well, you can both upload to Gedmatch if you haven’t already.

Hope he gets tested soon, and upload to Gedmatch.com (it’s free). Are you on Ancestry? That’s the best place to start, IMO. If you can get your mother to test too, better yet. Look for matches that match you but not them. Also, join DNA detectives on Facebook.

Heather, you are the same age as my son. We found his bio father through DNA and family trees. Still looking for my daughter’s since she has a different donor. Has your mother tested? Or any other siblings? If you find matches that don’t match your mother or half-sibs, you will know the match is on your father’s side.

I think you mean 1984?

I am a mother to 2 DC adults. They are 28 and 31 now. We told them when my son was 12 and daughter was 9. We made it clear to them that their “dad” was their “real father” and loved them very much, but they had the right to know about their biological fathers, too. I am not sure how I would handle it with a 5-year-old. What I did before we felt…[Read more]

How do I add names of facilities where my children were conceived? I chose the closest one from the list in order to create an account, but it’s not the right one. My children were conceived in two different places.