This month’s Volunteers of the Month are Adrian Kershaw and Lisa Vavrick! Adrian Kershaw came to DNAngels after completing the prestigious Boston University Genealogy Course and scoring top marks. She immediately impressed us with her quick ability to solve a test case,her thoroughness in her responses and her kind and caring attitude. Research Team Lead, Ashlee Krump says, “Adrian was such a huge help on my husband's case. And then when she knew I needed help with my cousin, she quickly …
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Musings of An Angel – Volume 17
The Cost of being an NPE I’m not talking about the $99 or whatever you paid to spit in the tube. I’m talking about the cost – emotionally, mentally, and physically – once you got your results and had that stone-in-the-pit-of- your-stomach feeling when you realized your life had just changed dramatically. Only someone who has had a DNA Surprise knows what I am talking about. That feeling when you feel everything you’ve ever known slide away from you and the blind panic that comes after it. Those …
Celebrating Three Years and 3500 Clients
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 identify 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 …
Volunteers of the Month – August 2022
Volunteers of the Month - August 2022 Kat C To Kat C., DNA is related to food. Give her a case where their ancestors are from Italy; she starts to crave pasta and pizza. Poland or Ukraine, like her own DNA and pierogies, are on her brain. Mexico? Tacos, of course, GOOD Tacos! Kat hails from a small town in Michigan and currently lives in Toledo, Ohio. She lives with her husband and feline companions and shares many traits with the animals she takes her nickname from - she has …
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 …
