Johannes Finds Loving Family After a Difficult Search
Johannes was adopted as a child and grew up in Germany. When he was 20, he decided to try to contact his biological mother. I tried to get in...
Johannes was adopted as a child and grew up in Germany. When he was 20, he decided to try to contact his biological mother. I tried to get in...
David Anderson was adopted at the age of one month. Growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado, he experienced the thoughts and fears of many adopted children: that his family...
At 13, Al Ballard of Colorado found out that he was adopted, but his adoptive mother told him she couldn’t find any information about his birth mother. Discouraged, he...
In the first #HolidayHeritage challenge, we asked for your oldest family photo from the holidays. We got this unusual and moving response from a user named Bethany: she posted...
Jan Gobbens from the Netherlands was adopted at a young age. As a young adult, he reconnected with his mother, but she passed away before he was able to...
Linda Reardon of Wales began researching her family history to help her 3 daughters learn about their heritage. Their father was of an Italian background, and they wanted to...
Patrick Tarin from Amarillo, Texas was raised by his paternal aunt and uncle. His father died in a car accident when Patrick was 10, but he knew nothing about...
Forty-five years ago, Christine Courtwright’s mother let her in on the family secret. She told her that one day, a woman may knock at the door claiming to be...
Jessica Shackelford, 31, from Oklahoma City was sent on a mission by her grandfather: Find all her lost uncles and aunts. Her grandfather knew he had seven children from...
Born in Germany just after World War I, Irma was raised by her aunt. After World War II, she managed to escape East Germany as a young mother herself,...
Terry Keith, 54, from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, USA, received the surprise of a lifetime when a MyHeritage DNA test revealed not one, but two half-sisters he never knew about...
Tracy Shand from Melbourne, Australia was adopted when she was just 3 months old. Some 21 years later, she connected with her biological mother. She was delighted to learn about that...