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Thank you for the link! I have read that one, and I find it interesting.
CaroleW, I have, but I haven't found much. In my experience, New Zealand records tend to be spotty or incomplete. I tried to find a possible father by searching for potential marriages a few years before she was born, and also I checked graves in the area trying to find a reference on a tombstone, but I was unsuccessful. I tried to follow a lead of a man with a foreign first name who was married at about the right time, but on his grave and family list there was no mention of a Diane.

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My Mother told me a few years ago. I believe her husband called my Mother to inform her.

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My mother was born to a woman called Diane Hutching in 1961. The adoption certificates give conflicting information, but what's certain is that she was adopted out almost at once.
Based on DNA test results I believe my family background may be significantly different to what I have been told, so I am attempting to trace Hutching back, and hopefully find the names of her parents and where they were born. I've attempted to use family search and Ancestry with little success.
Here are the facts that I know:

1. Her name was Diane Gail Hutching. She was 18 in 1961, so that gives a birthdate of around 1942-3.
2. She gave birth to a child at a maternal home called Fairview or Fairleigh in New Zealand in 1961. On further research, Fairleigh was a Hospital specifically catering for Unwed Mothers. However, it was a private facility, so her parents likely paid for her to stay there. In these circumstances, and the oddity with the birth certificates, I am not entirely sure whether she consented
3. At some point, she married and gave birth to Two daughters.
That's all I know.

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Hi All,
I have a complicated family tree involving both my paternal and maternal line, but the focus of this post will be my Mother's family and our DNA test results.
My Mother was adopted immediately after she was born. She knows who her biological Mother is and has spoken to her, but I never met her as we were in two separate countries. She knew about her ancestry on biological Father's side, which is fairly standard Welsh. She has no interest in doing a DNA test, so I did mine.   

I've attached the results in snipped form to this post.
The North Atlantic stuff is obviously standard for a person of English descent. What was a surprise, however, was quite a large percentage of Baltic Heritage, 22 percent, which as far as I know indicates a Grandparent or Great Grandparent. Even discounting the rest with the exception of Western Mediterranean as statistical noise presents quite a different ethnic background than I was expecting.

Part of the difficulty of having almost no information to go on about the Maternal side of my family tree means there's little I can do with these test results. I've researched my Father's parents and their backgrounds extensively, and there's no reason to think the West Med or the Baltic comes from them, as I've traced them back many generations.

I think DNA tests like these are very different to people who come from essentially broken family backgrounds.

What do all of you think?

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