NY Senate passes historic bill for adoptee rights

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2. I've seen the same and the protection

and privacy anyone assumes they have is now increasingly breaking down thanks to DNA tests.

Being a part of the Genetic Genealogy community has actually made me feel a bit more hopeful than I've been in years past. Even if this bill doesn't get passed this year, support is building and it will pass eventually. I think it helps that there's a shift going on in the general population to being much more sympathetic to adoptees looking for their biological families.

I'm truly sorry you haven't had much luck finding your answers yet. Parts of Canada can be quite a challenge due to endogamy and lack of people testing. Since you've been using the genetic aspect to look for a few years I won't insult you by rambling off my 'how to' speach.

I know that I was extremely lucky to hit the jackpot of having close matches as soon as the results from 23andMe (for American maternal) and then Ancestry (for Canadian paternal) came in. I also lucked in that both were willing to talk to me and one of the paternal close matches is a genealogist with a public tree on Ancestry that I could use to I now have the family tree I always longer for on Ancestry and I occasionally try to help fellow adoptees (and NPEs) find their puzzle pieces.