Did you have a DNA test to confirm your bio relationship?

Nope...no DNA test done. My search angel had a database that listed all the babies born on the day I gave birth in the city where I lived. There were 20 babies born..4 of those records had a certain symbol attached to it...meaning these children were issued amended birth certificates, of course meaning they were adopted. We did a process of elimination..as only one of these babies were born in the same hospital on that particular day mine was. My adult child already had her non-id..curiously my maiden name was not blacked out...only my first name. No other person with my last name gave birth at the same hospital at the same exact time, nor with the same weight of the baby either...We both figured we were a match!

Nope. It took me 10 years to even ask for my ID info to confirm it. There was no reason. I am my mother's daughter, the resemblance is shocking. My daughter's photo is on my g-ma's wall and people constantly comment on how they have never seen that picture of my sister. Even my adad can't tell my sister and I apart on the phone. When you couple all the physical stuff with the fact that I was born in a VERY small town there was no way I had found the wrong person.

No need for DNA test. I first got pictures of my son and could see similarities right away. Then I got a copy of his Amended Birth Certificate. The medical details..my doctor's name, the hospital, time/date of birth, etc were all correct.

When I talked to my son, he sounded just like his natural father.

There were many other similarities, as well.

Should I get DNA testing to confirm that the people who raised me are indeed my parents? I mean, I have the exact same information the adoptees here have...same looks, mannerisms, likes/dislikes, etc. But I've never had scientific confirmation that these people actually created me. Maybe everyone should get tested. Just to be sure.

Nope. And Im not trying to be snarky, but when you're adopted, you have an ability to match people up, or always come up right as to who is related to whom.

There was absolutely no denying who my f Mom was. Not only do we look the same, but the way we stand, walk, talk, laugh, use our hands- everything- is the same.

If there was a guessing game where you had to figure out who was related, and the contestants were non-adopted and adoptees, the adoptees would win every time. Dark hair or the same color eyes are superficial. Its the subtle things that most people dont even notice that families share through DNA that are undeniable. But adoptees pick up these subtle differences or similarities, because we have no genetic mirroring while growing up.

My N sibs are the same way, too.

Like Sunny, I'm a pretty good combination of the two. With my mom, I had paperwork. I knew she was the right person, but I still saw her picture before I saw her, and it was unmistakable. The weirdest part was seeing my great-grandmother who died four years earlier at the age of 98. I saw myself in that old, old woman, and it really almost frightened me. I had met my grandfather for the first time that evening, and he was showing me family pics waiting for my mom to get home and answer the phone. It was in the pre-cellphone days. Seeing yourself in a 98-year-old woman on the first day you've ever seen yourself in anyone is, well, shocking.

My dad and I did discuss a DNA test. We were at least a year into reunion when the subject arose. I don't even remember which one of us suggested it. I mean, all we each had was my mother's word and looking at one another. But again, there were strong family resemblances. I have his teeth complete with five years of braces. And some of the cousins and I really look alike. We discussed it and both decided we were satisfied without one. Although, we both would have been more than willing if either had any doubts.

I'm not adopted, but I don't have any doubt that my daughter's biological family are truly her biological family. Not only records that were kept and that we have, resemblance and mannerisms shared with different family members, but she also has a medical condition that seems to be genetic on one side of her biological family. Anyway, I think most people don't feel it necessary to do DNA testing unless there is some confusion and uncertainty. Usually other information can be confirming enough for most people.

Since my son's adoption was an open adoption that ended up closed by the time he was five, there was no reason for DNA since I knew his first and middle names (I thought I knew his last name too but his amom had actually changed it three different times through his childhood.) And for the first two years of his life, when I actually got the visits I was promised, I knew what his aparents looked like as well so I didn't have any question if he was my son.

But, when I first found him again, after thirteen years of being cut out of his life completely, it was through myspace and a close-up picture of him that first gave me a hint that I had found him. It was his eyes. They were my eyes exactly. It was because of that first connection that I actually looked further and then confirmed he was indeed my son.

no need for DNA test here!

I grew up with the occassional letter/picture so i had a pretty good idea of what my n-mom would look like. I also knew her first name...and eventually her last name slipped through the agency, so I knew her first and last name. Then she gave me my n-dad's name...and when we met WOW we looked a lot alike. He also had pictures of me when I was a little kid (sent through the agency).

Really there's no denying it. It's not like being with my a-family, where we try to "pass" as family because we have blonde hair. With my n-family it's unmistakeable...one of my bridesmaids that I have known since jr. high said "that's jen's dad!" when my n-dad walked into the wedding reception...she had never met him, but could just tell because we look so much alike.

No I didn't although my husband did suggest it before we actually met my son even though he had sent pics through to me by email.

My son and I look so much alike that anybody who doesn't know he was adopted would never guess it. We 'move' in the same way such as we both rub our noses in the same way, when we talk we move our hands in the same way, the way we smile is the same. Our hair is the identical colour and the same texture - dark blond and fine - and our eye colour is the same - bluish grey with a slightly darker rim and slightly speckled. Even people who know say at times it's easy to forget that I didn't raise him because of the way we behave together.

I knew what his first name had been changed to and that his middle name had been kept has that's what his adoptive father's name is. My son told me why his middle name was kept as he didn't know I already knew and that I also knew his amum's first name. They knew a bit about me so when we were first in reunion he asked me leading questions so he knew he had reunited with the right person. This was reinforced when I sent a pic as he'd already found my family and had seen pics of me already.