A very similar thing happened to me about a year ago. A woman contacted me saying I was one of the two closest DNA matches to her, she was adopted and looking for her bio family. We showed as 1st-2nd cousins. I was flummoxed about whose daughter she could be as my tree is pretty complete out to 2nd cousin. The only thing we could tell was that we were related on my Dad’s side because of the other cousins we had in common.
Long story short, a woman who helps adoptees find their biological parents using DNA and family trees found her father and mother. She turned out to be my half first cousin! (That’s the long part of the story. 😏
I’m pretty sure I still have contact info for that woman who helped, but it’s through the Ancestry system. Would that info be any help, do you think?
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