Update 2026: Assam tea plantation 1920s. Search for a mother
Foundling cases remain a passion, it really is incredible: a baby left on a doorstep, on a hill or outside a shop, now we can find answers through DNA.
Unusually, on this occasion I am looking for a mother for a client, the Scottish father being known. We have the mother’s name; it’s European, yet DNA tells us the mother was Indian. The child, my client, was happily adopted but questions remain.
Is the mother’s name, given on a baptism certificate, a red herring or is there a clue here?
You can DNA test to reveal the TRUE identity of a great grandparent.
Your great grandfather left on a doorstep - no way to tell who he was? There is a way!Many don’t realise DNA can unlock family mysteries & rumours of the past, even at a few generations' distance. If YOU test you can find out if Great Granny really had the aristocratic father that family lore proclaimed...
"My father was famous!"
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