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Bear5302

At the age of 40, I found out that I was adopted and/or perhaps even an abducted child. I had suspected my whole life that I was not a blood relation to the family that raised me. I am a direct opposite in appearance to the family that I grew up with me, they are short I am tall, they are dark skinned and I am light skinned. I have pulled a DNA profile against the woman who raised me and I was told I was not related to her with nearly 99% certainty. The man that I was told that was my father was someone I never met and he and the mother I grew up with are both dead. The whole family that I lived with as a child and young adult are dead and the remaining family will not talk. I was able to meet the brother of the man I thought was my father and I was able to test his DNA against mine and again, I do not have any shared genetic ties to him either. The family I grew up with lived in New York and New Jersey before moving to Florida, so if I am adopted and/or abducted I would likely be from one of those 3 states or perhaps surrounding states. What I know about my DNA profile is that I am of mostly European decent, but with some native American and Iberian ancestry also. I was probably born in 1967 or 1966. The birthday I have is December 25, 1966 but I’m not entirely sure that it is actually correct. The uncle who I tested his DNA said he never knew that "my mom" was pregnant, never saw her pregnant, but just knew she eventually showed up with a baby and said his brother was the father. I looked through photographs from the family and none of them seem to document a pregnancy either. I also have questions about my birth certificate and I think it is possibly faked, it was issued from New Jersey but when I went to get an extra copy they couldn’t find me after several attempts, it wasn’t until 2014 that I was able to get a copy from the state and it looks different than the one I had as a child/ young adult. As you can imagine and tell from my story, I have a lot of gaps of missing information and more questions about my background rather than answers. If you know anything related to the Estopinan or Raton families from the New York (NYC), Trenton, New Jersey or Hialeah, FL areas please contact me.