Adoption

For International Day of Families, 23andMe wanted to share with you what amounts to an international family story.Life has been good for Paul Knoll. He and his wife raised two sons...

After connecting through 23andMe, Doug and his birth mother Patricia worked hard to build a new family relationship. They spent time together and got to know each other and each other's their loved ones.

Adopted from the same small town in China, two cousins find each other using 23andMe and discover they're living only a few miles apart in Pennsylvania.

Lisa Altman shares her experience having unexpected results from her 23andMe DNA test and how it changed her understanding about herself and family. As Lisa says. our DNA offers a way to discover more about what makes us each unique. While those revelations can be exhilarating, sometimes an unexpected result, like Lisa's, can have profound implications for both you and your family. Here is her point of view.  

Eric and Dave, who both live in Florida but had until recently never met, learned through 23andMe that they were not just brother cops, but half-brothers too.

When they met for the first time, Tamara Miller and Leslie Wheeler were struck by their similarities. They both are Korean adoptees, and both share a cheerful disposition and closets...

Orphaned during the Vietnam war and raised in France, Guillaume uses 23andMe to help him find family he thought had disappeared in the fog of war.

Brian, an adoptee raised in California, used 23andMe to find first his brother JJ and then two more brothers and two sisters. They all met this year in Ohio for a reunion.

23andMe helps a woman find her family, reuniting her with three siblings and letting her learn about her mother who died tragically at a young age.

Brothers connect using 23andMe and meet for the first time on the daytime talk show Pickler & Ben.