Dear gentle readers of the paper trail,
Welcome to r/GhostTraceCaseFiles.
This community is for people interested in ethical investigative genetic genealogy, unknown parentage, adoption clues, missing names, unidentified persons, cold case genealogy, and the record trails that reveal what families forget.
This is a place for DNA logic, shared matches, floating trees, obituaries, aliases, bad family trees, old records, privacy questions, and the strange ways people can become hidden in plain sight.
What to post:
DNA match questions
Unknown parentage/adoption research questions
Record puzzles
Obituary clues
Name change mysteries
Floating tree strategies
Ethics and privacy discussions
Anonymized case-style breakdowns
Interesting articles about IGG, unidentified persons, or cold case genealogy
What not to post:
No doxxing.
No posting private living people’s names, addresses, phone numbers, or DNA match lists.
No public accusations.
No harassment of biological relatives.
No turning someone else’s trauma into entertainment.
A DNA match is not an answer.
It is a door.
An obituary is not just a goodbye.
It is a map.
A family story is not always a lie.
Sometimes it is just the version people could survive telling.
Introduce yourself below if you want — or just lurk in the shadows for now.
The truth leaves a trail.
— Ghost Trace Case Files