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[quote=Anonymous]Ok OP, I think I have a good and easy roadmap for you:

First, order a kit from 23andMe.com. $99.  They are the company that sequenced the Neanderthal genome, btw--very reputable.

The kit collects your saliva and it's pre-paid and you drop it in the mailbox.  You do have to wait about 5 weeks while it's being processed.

It gives you a bunch of fun information:  your percentage of Neanderthal genes, your maternal Haplogroup (mom's mom's mom's line), if you are male, it will also give you your Y haplogroup.  It breaks down your DNA so you can see what % you are Italian, or Yakut, etc.

However; for your purposes here, it also tells you if you are related to anyone else on this website.  There are tons of adoptees on that website looking for blood relatives.  And there's community boards, and one called "adoptees" and the people on there are very helpful.  They also recommend a very good group of people who had an amazing success rate at tracking down people (I don't remember that group's name but it's easy to find once on the website)

Most importantly, 23andMe gives you access to your "raw data" ---your genome.  So, (besides uploading it to another website to get health info and risk factors), you can upload your results to something called GEDmatch, which has a huge, huge database.

And I think you can also upload to ancestry.com and there are a few more websites you can upload to.  Anyways, once on 23andMe the world will open up to you with respect to how to proceed. [/quote]

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