NY Senate passes historic bill for adoptee rights

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3. Thanks

Yeah, I educate some folks on how to do this, and some of them strike gold early on. And the endogamy thing is indeed a stumbling block. But I persist every day.

I do find that 23andMe is indeed the best place to search, most of my efforts involve people from that testing site. Also, 23andMe is clear about getting people to list ancestral surnames, and if I have the name of a matching person along with the four surnames of their grandparents, I can usually always figure out their pedigree tree, even if they don't respond to a request for information from me.

I'll get there eventually, whether by building on small matches, or hitting the jackpot with a half-sibling or half first cousin. My closest match on 23andMe went there to search for the boy she gave up for adoption in Montreal in 1955, and just this year, he did a test on Ancestry, and they found each other. It is surely breaking down barriers.