NPE Stories

Bertrice took a DNA test to help a family member, and ended up finding a close family friend in her DNA matches. Since finding out she was an NPE during Covid to losing her husband this last year Ber…

Nicole lost both her parents in a short period of time, and then after getting into genealogy to honor her father's passing, she found out she was an NPE in the worst way. Nicole went through a few t…

Lauren LoGiudice is a comedian that identifies as a misfit, and is also a donor-conceived person with a couple hundred estimated siblings.

Lauren can be reached at laurenlogi.com
Lauren's Podcast Misf…

Shirley discovered through DNA tests that her entire biological family was different from the one she had known all her life, leading her to become a private detective so that she could uncover her t…

Shelly is part of a great little NPE community called the NoMi Girls who meet in Northern Michigan regularly.  She had a traumatic childhood and has put a lot of work into healing, including EMDR and…

Kris took a DNA test along with many of her family members and saw that she did not have DNA in common with her birth certificate father. She hid her profile online and has chosen, at this point, not…

This was a very long emotional episode that has been divided into 2 parts. This is part 2.

This was part of a panel held at the Untangling Our Roots Summit 2024 in Denver, CO. The panel was moderated …

This was a very long emotional episode that has been divided into 2 parts. This is part 1.

This was part of a panel held at the Untangling Our Roots Summit 2024 in Denver, CO. The panel was moderated …

Margo discovered her NPE status when she purchased an Ancestry kit to kill a lifelong curiosity. She learned her younger brother was not the only NPE in the family and suddenly her chaotic childhood …

Terra was raised in Texas by her single father and asked for a 23andMe for Christmas to see how much Native American she had on her maternal side.  Terra ended up having quite an ethnicity shift afte…

Dorene’s NPE discovery in 2022 at the age of 60 inspired her to become a trauma recovery coach, specializing in helping NPEs. As she began to study intergenerational trauma and apply what she learned…

Laura found out her half-siblings are her full siblings, and since finding out she was an NPE her family members have become distant.

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KaSheena took a DNA test to see what part of Africa her ancestors came from, but ended up finding a bunch of strangers show up in her DNA matches.

KaSheena can be reached via email kasheena.winston@gm…

Sue is an NPE that has a full sibling from her mother's affair with her birth father. Her research has uncovered other NPEs from her family as well, including her own mother.

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Devin shares his NPE story of finding out he is the youngest of 23 children spanned over many decades. He believes he may still have siblings out there he has yet to meet.

Devin can be reached via em…

After being abandoned by his mother at 6 months old, AJ moved to a rural area with the man everyone thought was his father.  His whole life, he never knew that the missing pieces he felt were not jus…

Raised just outside of Detroit, Bob had a vastly different upbringing than his biological father's children. Bob has found out, after taking a DNA test, that he is half Ashkenazi Jewish.

Bob can be re…

After a traumatic childhood and being raised primarily by an abusive grandmother, Shantel discovered her NPE status at age 23. The discovery came with a change in her racial identity but it wasn’t un…

Sharilyn figured out she was an NPE when she found her birth certificate. She met her birth father before his passing but needed time to process meeting her new biological family members. Like so man…

Jess is taller than her brothers and never had a relationship with her BCF after he was sent to prison when she was a child. She found out she was an NPE and her BF's family has been a new joy in Jes…