News — DNA

  Finding my truth has made me whole. By Mary N.  To read the beginnings of my story featured on Adoptee Merch click here.  I am fascinated with the DNA part of it, the genealogy. The truth is, the results of the end of a very long search for my living family was unbelievably painful and disappointing. I guess what I got out of it is almost a sense of being spared the real insane and chaotic life my siblings lived. I feel like the abandonment I felt, which I feel is the reason for my addictions are minuscule next...

  One year ago this month I received the results from my Ancestry DNA test. Within 24 hours I had found my birth mother. I'm not going to lie, I was in shock. I was part of a closed adoption through Catholic Charities. I was adopted in a state, Minnesota, which does not have open records. I had attempted to get access to my OBC but my birth mother would have had to filed paperwork to allow me to see it. I tried to go through Catholic Charities but all I could afford at the time was to pay them...