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

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

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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

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

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