When DNAngels was incorporated on September 19, 2019, we had Big Dreams. Little did we know that we would help 3,500 clients BEFORE we made it to this milestone anniversary! That's right! As of September 13th, we have helped 3,500 individuals find their birth families! So we have two reasons to celebrate this week! 3 years and 3,500 clients! To say we could not have done it without each and every client, volunteer, donor and cooperative family member is an understatement! We are …
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Musings of An Angel – Volume 16
UNDER THE HALO – THOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANGEL – WRITTEN BY: KELLY GRACE “One day, your mom and I won’t be here, but you will always have each other. The greatest gift we could ever give you two is one another. Don’t forget that. Love, Dad.” (John Dixon, A Million Little Things.) This week the Angry Avenging Angel has been replaced by a kinder, gentler, angel. Still wearing the Green Hoodie ™. We had a long conversation about healing and forgiveness the other day in the …
Volunteers of the Month – July 2022
Volunteers of the Month - July 2022 Rachel Kiley Trout Rachel Kiley Trout is a relatively new addition to the DNAngels Volunteers, but in her short time, she has made quite an impression on both her fellow volunteers as well as clients. Born and raised in Boston, she is the youngest of a large Irish-American family. She became interested in genetic genealogy in 2018 and began working on unlocking the family secrets she found when looking at her daughter’s Ancestry DNA results. “I love …
No More Secrets
No More Secrets An Interview with Peter J. Boni While the idea of artificial insemination has been around since the 1300s, the first human offspring reported was in England in 1790. But it wasn’t until the 1940s that more than a few hundred women successfully gave birth to what we now refer to as “donor conceived persons” or DCPs. One of the 10,000 born in the 1940s was author Peter J. Boni. Peter is a successful businessman, CEO of his own company, and the …
Donor Conceived – It Does Matter
DONOR CONCEIVED – IT DOES MATTER! An Interview with Cassandra Adams I recently had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Cassandra Adams. If you are unfamiliar with her, she is a donor conceived individual, and since her discovery, due to a 23andme DNA test, she has become a major voice in advocating for the rights of Donor Conceived People, or DCPs. She’s also a wife, a mother and has a welcoming smile that immediately makes a person feel like she has created a circle of …
Musings of An Angel – Volume 15
UNDER THE HALO – THOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANGEL – WRITTEN BY: KELLY GRACE Scrolling through Facebook the other day a meme caught my eye. It was a picture of an ultrasound with twins, and the caption read “Pregnant women are so sensitive. My sister told me she was having twins and I said, ‘at least you’re finally having two children with the same man.’” And then I thought about it. My Mom had two children. Not with the same man. While there is nothing out of the ordinary about …
