Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it is done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about how DNA genealogy works even when the person you’re looking for has never taken a test.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about what happens after we find your family and how we can help with making contact.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about whether we search for siblings and other relatives too.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about pricing and what’s included.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about how long a typical search takes.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about whether we can still help even if you have no name or information to go on.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about confidentiality and how we protect your privacy throughout the search.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about what happens if your DNA test doesn’t show a strong match.
Thinking of using DNA to find a lost family member? Want to ask a professional to take the case on so that it’s done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your questions about whether we ever give up on a case – even when it gets difficult.
Thinking of using family history DNA to find your father? Want to ask a professional to take the case on, so that it is done properly? Louise Baldock of Finding Families answers your question about how sure she is that we can get answers for you.
If you want to know about DNA and finding families, this talk is for you. UK’s leading DNA genealogist, TV consultant Louise Baldock of Finding Families talks about all things DNA. In this talk developed for the Genealogy Show in Spring 2022, she introduces us to her client Judie, whose mum Sheila asked for help in identifying her birth father. We also learn about what DNA is, different kinds of tests, what kind of results to expect, how to look at results, DNA cousin matches, how to cluster people into family groups, how to find unknown biological parents and grandparents, DNA tools like What Are The Odds (WATO), which website databases are best, and much more besides.
What is DNA? How might it help find unknown birth family? How is it inherited? Louise Baldock, UK’s leading DNA genealogist, owner of Finding Families, explains in a simple and easy to understand way.
Distribution of DNA through the generations – visual demonstration using coloured smarties to show how DNA is passed on from parents to children and grandchildren. Louise Baldock, UK’s leading DNA genealogist in her kitchen, struggling not to eat the props.
Answering your questions about DNA testing with Ancestry. How do you physically take the test? How long do the results take to come? What do the results look like? Louise Baldock, UK’s leading DNA genealogist talks you through her own DNA test experience.
Louise Baldock of Finding Families explains how her family tree contained an embarrassing and major error for twenty years. Ancestry DNA testing would ensure that couldn’t happen again! Hear the story of murdered Ruth Hadley and how her absence from family records puzzled researchers.
Finding Families owner Louise Baldock talks on Zoom with Sam Dawson in Australia about their successful search for his grandfather George Stephenson from Middlesbrough, England. Sam takes Louise through a book he created about that experience.
There is also a radio interview with Sam Dawson and Gary Phillipson on BBC Radio Tees about our work on his case here
True life story: Sheila was born in 1932 in Manchester. She never knew who her father was. Louise Baldock, UK’s leading DNA genealogist talks with Sheila’s daughter Judie, about Sheila’s story and how her father Edward was finally identified.
If you – or someone you love – is desperate to find out who their father was, or their grandmother, or another important yet unknown family member, you will need to see this. Here are just a few of the happy families we have brought back together using ground breaking DNA research.
