Laura Olmsted’s life changed forever in 2018 when she took an AncestryDNA (ancestry. co.uk/dna) test for fun. “To my shock, I discovered that the man who raised me was not my biological father,” says

I’d always wanted a brother or a sister, but Mum’s revelation was the start of something far bigger.

Scott Shearer’s world was turned upside down when he was 12 years old. He discovered his supposed parents Ted and Sylvia were not his mum and dad after all – they were his grandparents. They had hidde

When Louise put a message to her father in her local paper, she couldn’t believe what happened…

How do you research your family history when you’re adopted? Do you follow the lines of your biological parents, assuming you know who they are, or do you investigate your adopted parents’ families? K

When my pugnaciously no-nonsense granny set about constructing our family tree, she cut through the ambiguity of my place on it by adding (grafted) after my name. It was a fair, if blunt, acknowledgem