NPE Stories

Paige was raised in poverty in Louisiana with a very rough childhood. She had heard rumors that her late father was not her dad, but this was never confirmed until she took an Ancestry DNA test. Paig…

Brittani is healing not broken, she shares her story of healing through depression and creating a healing cycle for herself and for others. Finding out you are an NPE is at most times very difficult …

Fred is a late discovery adoptee, and realized life was never going to return back to normal after the "swing of the wrecking ball" He has written a memoir and is 20 years into his discovery and reun…

Stacey found out through a DNA test and subsequent conversation with her mother, that she was an NPE. She has started a relationship with her HS and BF. 

Stacey can be emailed at [email protected]…

Heather knew she was conceived at Quantico. An unknown mystery uncle appeared on her Ancestry. After speaking with his family Heather was able to figure out that one of his brothers was stationed as …

A month before her dad is coming to visit her, Josie re-logs back into 23andMe after many years and notices something strange in her family tree.

Josie can be emailed at [email protected]

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Crystal found out she was an NPE in 2021.   She spent some time messaging her family before they all figured out who her biological father was. She has now formed a great relationship with her brothe…

Beth chooses to share her NPE story anonymously because her birth certificate father does not know the truth. Her sister found out they were half-sisters through a 23andMe DNA test.

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Nancy wondered why her Mom picked a cousin to be her godfather rather than one of her beloved brothers...she later found out they were closer than she knew.

Nancy can be reached through email at nkauf…

Bobbi says her NPE story is a rare one, and she hasn't heard one quite like it. Many of her family members end up being NPEs.

Bobbi can be reached through email at [email protected]

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Sydney always felt that something was off in her family of origin, and everyone around her acted extremely strange when she started to talk about her DNA results. Turns out nearly everyone in her lif…

Jeff says his NPE story has a happy ending. He had a normal upbringing as a child and was completely surprised when a HS reached out to him after taking an Ancestry DNA test.

Jeff can be reached thro…

Although Pam Z forgave her birth certificate father on his deathbed she kept her distance from him throughout her childhood for her own protection.

Pam Z can be reached through email at dreambig373@g…

Kelly Grace Hickey is such an important volunteer in our NPE community. She has solved endless cases through the non-profit founded by Laura Olmsted, DNAngels. DNAngels, if you haven't heard, finds b…

Kimberly has gone through a lot of healing to get where she is currently at in her NPE story. Although initially she had contact with her biological father, like so many other NPEs, that relationship…

Izola is 90 years old, and has not been able to find out a lot about her biological father, since most of the people that would know information are no longer around. She was incorrectly told it was …

Traci's sister thought she was the NPE in the family after finding out her mother had a brief secret marriage to a man they didn't know. After taking a DNA test Traci found out she was in fact the NP…

Leeanne is an NPE and the author of NPE* A story guide for unexpected DNA discoveries.   
Leeanne comes on the podcast in Episode 144 and shares some of her favorite resources, portions of her book as…

Melissa never knew who her father was, and was never given much information as her mother had her out of wedlock, and her family carried a lot of shame over this. As an adult Melissa had the internet…