Make the impossible, possible.
Help others learn about their unknown roots.
Our mission is to help individuals on their journey as adults into the unknown past using science to help reveal their truth.
All donations go towards the purchase of DNA test kits for individuals who have submitted a search request on searchangels.org (link). After a case has been submitted without DNA testing, we evaluate if a client cannot afford to purchase a DNA test on their own. If they can provide sufficient information and qualify because of their economic/budgetary limitations, the executive director will then see if there are sufficient donations (funds) to purchase a DNA test kit on their behalf.
Below are some of the scenarios we have encountered when individuals have reached adulthood and feel compelled to take on this journey to learn more about their biological roots.
Baby Scoop Era.
From 1945 to 1973, it is estimated that up to 4 million parents in the United States had children placed for adoption, with 2 million during the 1960s alone.
Orphans.
Individuals taken into orphanages with the potential promise of finding a family sometimes aged out of the system and still struggle as adults to learn their biological identities.
Foster Care.
Many children taken into the system, by various circumstances, may or may not have been adopted, but some still seek the truth behind their, sometimes lost, identities years later.
Children from extramarital relationships.
Some people have grown up thinking they knew their parents, only to find out as adults they were raised by only one of their biological parents and the other has become unknown.
Egg or Sperm Donor child.
Donor or fertility clinics help create families, but the parents may or may not have told their children that they were ever conceived that way. As adults, many look for answers.
Children of Abandonment.
Either through some domestic incident or other unique circumstances, some children are abandoned by one parent, or their parent has kept secret who their other parent is and as adults want to learn more about their biological roots on that side of the family.