Long Lost Families: Born Without Trace 2
It has been a privilege to work on Long Lost Families: Born Without Trace 2. Finding parents without any usable data of any kind is tricky, to say the least. I really enjoy the challenge of the most difficult - if not ‘impossible to solve’ - cases. So many have given up all hope of finding family; to be able to give people much needed answers is rewarding and provides much-needed closure for foundlings.
DNA detective work
There’s a real art to it all, and a tremendous amount of work involved in sifting through the cousin matches (after a DNA test at the direct-to-consumer sites) looking for commonalities, and a piecing together of 'the clues' - common surnames, locations, shared ancestors in the 1700s etc - to ultimately achieve 'the goal' of identifying the biological parents for a foundling.
This process can take many months depending on the amount of cousin representation on the databases.
After a while, I get a...
