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Facebook Groups & Pages for Adoptees, NPEs, and Donor Conceived People

by bkjax December 15, 2020

DNA & GENETIC GENEALOGY

23andMe Newbies

AncestryDNA for Dummies

AncestryDNA Gedmatch 23andMe FTDNA MyHeritage Genealogy LivingDNA

AncestryDNA Matching

AncestryDNA ThruLines

DNA Adoptee Research & Reunion

DNA Central

DNA Detectives

The DNA Geek

DNA Painter User Group

DD Social, a subgroup of DNA Detectives

DNA Testing Adviser

FTDNA User Group

Genealogy and DNA for Beginners

Genealogy Just Ask!

Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques

Investigative Genetic Genealogy

My Heritage Users Group

We’re Related/Gedmatch/Relative Finder Matches

Your Genetic Genealogist

ADOPTEES

Adoptees, NPEs, Donor-Conceived & Other Genetic Identity Seekers

Adopted Adults Support Group

Adoption Healing Network

Adoptees in Search of Their Birth Family

Adoptees Only

Adoptees Only: Found/Reunion The Next Chapter

Adoptees Supporting Adoptees

Adoption Reunion Search and Support Group

Adoption Search & Support by DNAngels — Adoptee/LDA

Adult Adoptee Network

Adult Adoptees of Color

Adult Adoptees Support Group

Birth Parents Only: Our Journey to Heal

Coalition for Genetic Truth (CGT)

DNA Adoptee Research & Reunion

DNAngels Search & Support – NPE/DC

DNA Surprises Support Group

Find Birth Parents, Siblings, Adoptees and Family

Korean Adoptees

MPE Cross Cultural Connections

MPE/NPE Counseling Collective

Right To Know

This MPE Life

DONOR CONCEPTION

Adoptees, NPEs, Donor Conceived & Other Genetic Identity Seekers

Coalition for Genetic Truth (CGT)

DNA for the Donor Conceived

DNA Surprises Support Group

Donor Conceived People, Siblings, Parents and Donors (Sperm, Egg, Embryo)

Friends of Donor Conceived Individuals

Gen Z Donor Conceived People

MPE Cross Cultural Connections

MPE/NPE Counseling Collective

Right To Know

This MPE Life

We Are Donor Conceived

LATE DISCOVERY ADOPTEES

Coalition for Genetic Truth (CGT)

DNA Surprises

Forum for Late-Discovery Adoptees

Late Discoveries, An Adoptee’s Quest for Truth

Late Discovery Adoptees & Family

MPE Cross Cultural Connections

MPE/NPE Counseling Collective

Right To Know

This MPE Life

NPEs & MPEs (NOT PARENT EXPECTED & MISATTRIBUTED PARENTAGE EXPERIENCE)

Adoptees, NPEs, Donor Conceived & Other Genetic Identity Seekers

Coalition for Genetic Truth (CGT)

DNA NPE Friends

DNA Surprises

Hiraeth Only: Longing for Home

The Mindful NPE

MPE Cross Cultural Connections

MPE Jewish Identity Surprise

MPE/NPE Counseling Collective

NPE Only: After the Discovery

Right To Know

SEARCH & REUNION

Adoptees in Search of Their Birth Family

Adoption Reunion Search & Support

Adoption Search & Support by DNAngels — Adoptee/LDA

DNA Adoptee Research & Reunion

Find Birth Parents, Siblings, Adoptees and Family

Search Squad

Search Squad’s Pre-Reunion/Contact Support Group

*This is not an exhaustive list of Facebook groups. If you have a group or are aware of a group that merits inclusion, please contact us.

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