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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Finding my father through Ancestry DNA
« on: Wednesday 08 July 20 14:44 BST (UK)  »
the closest matches on my fathers side with family trees are :
60cM across 3 segments
57cM across 2 segments
56cM across 4 segments
21cM across 2 segments
 
they live in different countries and my mother lived in Surrey at time of conception. I also know my father was in his 40s at the time.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Finding my father through Ancestry DNA
« on: Wednesday 08 July 20 12:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,
I have recently received the results of my Ancestry DNA test. I was hoping to find out who my father was through this test (I've checked birth certificates, adoption papers, his name is listed no where) I have also tried to be in touch with family members that would have known of him but they have either passed or haven't replied.

I have been able to distinguish my maternal DNA matches apart from the paternal DNA matches but on the paternal side there is only a few matches of a '4th-6th cousin' and I'm not even sure where to start to determine who our common ancestor is as each cousin has a different family tree. Has anyone had any success with doing it this way and has any advice?
Cheers, Tracey.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help me find my father!
« on: Monday 18 March 19 23:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone
Thank you for all your help.
I have had a reply from SA, unfortunately they don't keep those tracing records if it's before 1988. But I found my uncles business in the UK, (my mothers brother) and have called and left a message. Hopefully he may know something and i hear back soon.
Would a DNA test on Ancestry, or MyHeritage be better?
Thanks for all your help.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help me find my father!
« on: Monday 18 March 19 01:28 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both Carole & Indiana. I will look into trying the adoption papers. I'm worried that he won't be on it though seeing he is not even on my original birth certificate. Is a father still required to be on adoption papers if he isn't listed as the father on my birth certificate?
Thanks again for both of your help it's really appreciated.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help me find my father!
« on: Monday 18 March 19 00:29 GMT (UK)  »
Yes he adopted me, therefore I only found out he wasn't my real father when I was around 19. Around then my stepfather and my mum divorced and my sisters and I never saw my mum again, she left. She told me he wasn't my real father before she left though.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help me find my father!
« on: Monday 18 March 19 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
I have approached the Salvation Army's Tracing Services to see if they have any records or even share them. Hopefully they do. Thank you so much for that idea.

Carole, thank you for your help. Yes my mother remarried in 1966 and my Stepfather is alive but no response back as of yet, I first reached out to him around Christmas. My mother is not around but you definitely have the correct marriage. My half sisters are also unaware that he is not my real father. It was a big secret, my mother had told no one except my step father. So my uncle and aunties on my mother side are also unaware of his name.

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Family History Beginners Board / Please help me find my father!
« on: Sunday 17 March 19 23:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,
I am on a mission to find my father. Except I really have no information about him to help me on my search. I have tried to be in touch with family members that would have known of him but they have either passed or haven't replied. I want your help as I don't know where to begin or whether a DNA test on Ancestry or anything like that would help. He also is not on my birth certificate, only my mother, and she gave me her last name. This is the information I have relating to him:

- I was born in 1964 in Surrey, England, and I was told that he was in his 40s or 50s when I was born.
- He worked on boats and my mother, Sandra Helena Sykes, who was 20, joined him
- He left again while I was born to go back out to sea and my mother got in contact with the Salvation Army to get in contact with him and bring him back when I was born
- He decided he couldn't stay and left again
- He may have been Jewish (I've been told different things)

I am aware he most likely has passed, but I'm interested in knowing who he was or at least having a picture, it's a big part of my identity that I've never known. I also am intrigued as to whether I have any half siblings. I'm not sure where to start looking or if it's possible that I may find anything from any archives or tests you are aware of.


As always, any help is greatfully received.

Cheers, Tracey.

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