It is a fundamental human right to know your genetic identity. We support everyone impacted by genetic identity issues and loss of genetic continuity from adoption, assisted reproduction, or non-paternal events (NPE).

Helping you navigate your NPE experiences. NPEGuide.com is a helpful guide for new NPEs (Not Parent Expected). Blog with articles relevant to new paternity discoveries.

Helping you navigate your NPE experiences. NPEGuide.com is a helpful guide for new NPEs (Not Parent Expected). Blog with articles relevant to new paternity discoveries.

Eve Sturges uses heart and humor to explore the changing landscape of modern DNA testing. By talking with others who have had “DNA discoveries,” Eve hopes to change the conversation around secrets, shame, family, and identity.

Family Twist is a podcast about DNA surprises within the NPE, adoption, and donor-conceived communities.

Genealogy is a fun hobby until the results of a consumer DNA test reveal a devastating secret. NPE* A STORY GUIDE FOR UNEXPECTED DNA DISCOVERIES is an authentic resource for people uncovering a new identity, their loved ones, and genealogists who encounter NPEs in a family tree.

There is no more fundamental human need than to belong – first to a family, and then to others. My story and research over three years provide information and support to guide readers. Relatable insights and true stories are presented that address the initial shock of discovery, suggestions about communications, new ethnicities, family recognitions and rejections, and the history of illegitimacy.

I Had My Underwear On The Entire Time: A Memoir of Discovering Family through Genetic Genealogy.

I Had My Underwear On the Entire Time is a book about secrets. It’s the story about a forty-five-year-old mystery that gets unearthed and the aftermath that follows. This book is for those who carry secrets and also for those who are the keepers of secrets. It is also for the few who seek answers to their own mysteries. I Had My Underwear On The Entire Time can serve as a guide to those on a quest and it showcases the author’s successes and missteps along the way. This book may motivate people who find themselves in a similar situation and may prove that they are not alone.

When You Shake the Family Tree is a vulnerable sharing of Margo’s search for self. An emotional quest of connecting the dots that suddenly made her whole life make sense. Rejection and family secrets were themes she knew all too well. Her jaw-dropping DNA discovery journey will force you to grab your tissues and question whether you’ve been told the truth by your family.

Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination

By his forties, Peter J. Boni was an accomplished CEO, with a specialty in navigating high-tech companies out of hot water. Just before his fiftieth birthday, Peter’s seventy-five-year-old mother unveiled a bombshell: His deceased father was not his biological father. Peter was conceived in 1945 via an anonymous sperm donor. The emotional upheaval upon learning that he was “misattributed” rekindled traumas long past and fueled his relentless research to find his genealogy. Over two decades, he gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the scientific, legal, and sociological history of reproductive technology as well as its practices, advances, and consequences. Through twenty-first century DNA analysis, Peter finally quenched his thirst for his origin.

Ancestry Discoveries: What Happens Under the Sheets Doesn’t Stay There -This is a story of how I, at age fifty-seven, discovered a family secret by taking an Ancestry.com DNA test. I was eager to explore my lineage. Would I discover a Native American heritage? Was I royalty? Was I related to Lucille Ball? Carol Burnett? Anything seemed possible!

What I discovered was that my father-who raised me, walked me down the aisle, sang with me at the piano, and whom I adored-was not my biological father at all.

I am an NPE (Not Parent Expected) or MPE (Mis-attributed Parental Event) person. As much as 30% of the world may share this identity. Thanks to recreational DNA testing, the secrets and lies are exposed, with numbers increasing.

The Record Keeper: The Unfolding of a Family Secret in the Age of Genetic Genealogy.

The Record Keeper is a true story about three generations of DNA, genealogy, and memory. In this touching personal narrative, Allison seeks to understand how family and friendships, motherhood, and marriage can be torn apart by betrayal and abuse–yet mended together with an imperfect beauty by forgiveness, time, and love.

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