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, …
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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 …
Musings of An Angel – Volume 1
Under the Halo – Thoughts and Impressions from an Angel Written By: Kelly Grace <long shot> a shadowy figure mounts the summit. Her hair is blowing in the wind, in her right hand is clutched a gnarled walking staff. She pushes back the hood of her cloak, shades her eyes and looks off into the distance. What is she searching for? She squints… and there he is! The mythical figure “biologicalus paternus”. Her wings unfurl and she flies down and snatches him up to take him to his …
NPE/MPE Grief
You can find more of Dinah’s writing on her blog https://withangelsandelephants.com The NPE journey is full of twists and turns and is massively complex. Most of the time, it’s overwhelming at best. And as we’ve all learned… The regular burdens of life don’t stop to give us time to process NPE issues. Life continues on and we have to weave the NPE journey into our already complex and challenging lives. We all handle things differently… Right? So here’s one of my coping mechanisms… …
When DNA Results Are Wrong!
Have you taken a DNA test and wondered if your results were wrong? Do you match people you have no idea who they are? Have you asked your Mom about names that have come up in your results and had her say that “DNA is junk science” or “those tests are wrong”? DNAngels recently worked on a case where, according to every logical explanation, the results were WRONG. Let’s take a look at this case and see what happened with the results. When Leesha Calderon of New Braunfels, Texas, took …
Volunteer Of The Month – July 2021
DNAngels is proud to recognize Lisa Hutchens Binz as our inaugural “Volunteer of the Month” for July 2021. Lisa began volunteering with DNAngels July 31, 2020. Since that time, she has filled many roles as a volunteer, including being one of our Lead Intake Specialists. As an Intake Specialist, she is one of the first people that a potential client talks to as they are beginning their journey to find their biological parents. Ask anyone who has been screened by her and they will tell you …
