Louise Baldock

Karin's story - Finding Families with DNA Karin grew up in London as an only child with a single mother. Listen to how her quest to find more about her family (both maternal and paternal) created ripples which led to some amazing connections ...

Listen to our latest podcast with Karin who found a huge new family with DNA.

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It's been a great few weeks. We found the living fathers for Megan, Paul and Richard along with new half siblings for older clients Gillian and Dawn. And we found grandfathers for Debra and Audrey. Natasha has sent a photo of meeting her father for the first time too which we hope to show you soon.

Fascinating talking with scouse Maria about her search for her birth father after the shock of discovering her beloved Dad wasn't genetically related to her #Liverpool #DNA #Family www.facebook.com/FindMyBirthF...

Very proud

Michael's story Finding Families · Episode

Michael from Tyneside describes his search for his birth mother and father, and how meeting his siblings has changed his life.

Michael's case was solved by Nadine in our team, a big thank you to her for her sterling work.

Bring tissues

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What a day. Debbie phoned to say she met her birth father at the weekend for the first time. Duncan phoned to confirm his DNA results were in and he was indeed a paternal sibling match to Katherine. And Judith phoned to thank us for the report identify both of her parents #DNAGenealogy

Second podcast recorded today. Michael's search for his birth family. Him meeting his late mother's identical twin sister was particularly emotional - as you can imagine!

Recorded our first (audio) podcast interview with a client yesterday. Next step is editing. It took 3 months to find the best way to record a quality sound. Hope learning about the editing doesn't take as long. Wonders of DNA #genealogy

I will look out for it tomorrow

Fairly easy for you to prove, I mean.

If you send me an email to info@findingfamilies.co.uk I can lay out the steps for you. Fairly easy to prove if you've already done the hard part.

Paul's father is going to be tough to trace. Looks like he was the illegitimate child of an Italian POW and a Londoner who was herself illegitimate. We've got our work cut out. The wonders of DNA #genealogy

We speculate that Suzanne's grandfather knew about the illegitimate daughter that he fathered when he was 21. His first legitimate child was later given the identical same first and middle name. The wonders of DNA #genealogy

This week, we found the Lewis islander who fathered Jane's mum back in late 1918. He was by then with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. There are indications he got two women pregnant at broadly the same time. Must have been a real charmer. The wonders of DNA #genealogy

We've had a beautiful testimonial from Nicky whose birth father we found. And a smashing photo. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Eht...

We've taken on a few new paternal Jewish DNA searches. One of our specialities but still very difficult. So many of the usual tools in the tool box simply aren't there. Inconsistency over country of origin, different surnames adopted, the destruction of generations of cousins during the Holocaust.

Flo now knows who her unknown father was. DNA points straight to him. Whether he worked at Whessoe in Darlington 70 years ago remains to be seen. #genealogy

We've solved some fascinating cases this month. Trish's grandfather has been identified through the marvels of DNA. He was a Manchester theatre manager a hundred years ago or so. It turns out the elderly relative with early dementia wasn't making it up after all. #genealogy

Intro: Owner manager of Finding Families Limited. We are UK DNA genealogists who support the team at Long Lost Family, Born Without Trace (the foundlings) and occasional support for WDYTYA. Our bread and butter is identifying fathers, occasionally mothers, and grandparents for private clients.

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So helpful thank you

Thanks very much. I may set up a professional account for my genealogy wirk in due course but for now I shall enjoy seeing what people are talking about. Much appreciated

Looking for new people to follow. Please suggest some. Or groups if that's a thing. UK. Art lover, fiction reader, lefty, container gardening, antiques, art deco, aerial nouveau, making podcasts tips, DNA and genealogy

A few post their own stuff. But too many have had their fingers burnt over the years with stupid posts. Or the trolling is too damaging for their mental health. So they mostly just don't do it anymore.

Politicians don't do their own social media anyway. Any of them. Not if they have any kind of ambition. They have their staff do it for them.

I am bored to death of so many posts on every platform being about other platforms. Post something worth engaging with, share, exchange. Be original. Grow. Please.

Squeeze 50th anniversary tour in the Globe in Stockton on Tees. Fantastic night. Great tunes. Cool for Cats and Up the Junction, (the past has been bottled and) Labelled with Love, Pulling Mussels from a Shell, Another Nail in my Heart, Take Me I'm Yours (because dreams are made of this).