FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2021 DNAngels announces Merger with Discover Family CARBONDALE, Ill. – DNAngels and Discovery Family – two non-profit organizations dedicated to assisting individuals searching for their biological families - announced that the two organizations would be merging. “It just made sense” said DNAngels Executive Director, Laura Olmsted. “Troy (Olson of Discover Family) has the ability to generate the interest from potential clients and we (DNAngels) …
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Musings Of An Angel – Volume 4
UNDER THE HALO - THOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANGEL - Written By: Kelly Grace - To quote Shakespeare, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (Romeo and Juliet). My cousin Jason and I love comparing crazy names we come across in our respective jobs. He used to work for a university in the registrar’s office, and I work as a paralegal. We would get together and giggle over names like “Pajama”, or “Acrosissississississius” and my personal …
Volunteer of the Month – September 2021
Congratulations to Tara Dawn Moore, our Volunteer of the Month for September! Have you ever had a co-worker that it didn’t matter what the task was, if you needed a volunteer, they were always the first person to raise their hand, sign up, or just show up to help? They know just enough about everything to get themselves into trouble. Need bracelets or keychains or shiny things made? She’s on it. Got a tough case no one wants to touch? She’ll take it. Need emails answered? Consider them …
Musings of an Angel – Volume 3
Under the Halo – Thoughts and Impressions from an Angel Written By: Kelly Grace Today’s ponderings are brought to you by my non lime-green hoodie wearing day-job. I’m a family law paralegal. Have been for ten (10) years now. Sometimes it is reflected in my writing; the excessive use of the semi-colon, the compulsion to write numbers as words with the numerals in parentheses, using words others wouldn’t like “compulsion”… Just like every Angel at DNAngels has a type of case they will …
Musings of An Angel – Volume 2
Under the Halo – Thoughts and Impressions from an Angel Written By: Kelly Grace Scene: Our heroine in her favorite lime green DNAngels hoodie and matching fuzzy socks sits down to review the new case assigned to her. Client has a 1685 match and 10+ matches over 200 centimorgans! WOW!! This should take longer to map then to find our missing “biologicalus paternus”! She opens her computer; her face lit by the glow of the screen and looks over the DNA matches for the client. Top match, …
Volunteer of the Month – August 2021
Each month we want to highlight our Volunteer of the Month. This month we recognize Kelly Grace. Kelly is what we call an “original”. Kelly and Laura started out together as part of a team of search angels all the way back in the fall of 2018. Kelly was the ninja private eye of the team. She could, and still can find almost anyone. She also had the task of finding obituary information and sleuthing out hard to find records. Kelly was also the team member that came up with the slogan, “Finding …
