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

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

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

Most expectant mums spend their entire pregnancy thinking about that magical moment when they’ll finally get to meet their baby for the first time. Who they’ll take after, what colour eyes and hair th

My baby dream came true, just not how I’d planned it

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