Roots reizen

As it is rather complicated to start a search if you don’t know where to start, Back to the Roots Swiss organization of adopted Sri-Lankans) made a roadmap “Guide roots search”. This roadmap
is translated and can be downloaded through our website. Anyone may use this document. Both Sri Lanka DNA and “Guide roots Search” don’t guarantee anything and reject beforehand all liability.
Sri Lanka DNA advises to seek professional psychological support during your search.

NB: Some words are not translated into Dutch, as these terms in the documents or in Sri Lanka, are indicated with those words. So look into your documentation which words apply to you.

In our network there are a number of experienced people who can do fieldwork in Sri Lanka.
Mostly they are people who do root searches next to their dayjobs.
We also have a great deal of experience in helping the adoptees in their search.

Do contact us, so we can help you as much as possible.

DNA matching, when you suppose to have found your biological family…

A search becomes a success when you find family and the familystory matches up with what you know about your adoption. But as so many things can be wrong with your papers, the only certainty is a DNA match. To make this possible Sri Lanka DNA has a number of depots for DNA kits in Sri Lanka. You don’t have to wait till next time to take a DNA test. This can be organized during your trip in Sri Lanka.

What to do:

1. Contact Sri Lanka DNA
2. Start your root search with us
3. DDo a DNA match on the spot in one of our local depots for scientific proven kinship

First decide whether you want to do this by yourself, or with someone to accompany you.
If you prefer searching on your own, you can use this document as a roadmap
(Back to the Roots Search Guide). If you unexpectantly get stuck and need help, you always may contact op us.

At first sight you cannot recognize whether your file contains empty or untrue information. Advisable is to look for divergent information, for instance, if your birth certificate mentions a different hospital than your medical file, or certain data don’t match or that information is deleted’. Which might be an indication that you are one of those people with a falsified file.

Whether you go searching on your own or through us, the results are depending on how much useful information your file contains. When your file is true, your family will be found very fast. If nothing is correct in your file, even the most experienced searcher cannot find any clues.

No. We love to let you get in touch with experienced people who for years have helped adoptees with their search. It is important that you hit it off with the person who does the searching for you. We can introduce you to someone, but ultimately you yourself decides which person you want next to you.

More and more it happens that no information is given to a third person. It may occur that the searcher doesn’t get any further because information is only given to the person concerned. Thus it may be necessary to visit Sri Lanka yourself.

If you need a DNA kit for yourself or for someone you think might be a next of kin, you need 2 DNA kits, 1 for yourself and one for the other person. You can buy them with us.

So it doesn’t make any difference whether you need a DNA kit to check if the other person is your possible brother/sister/mother.

So, for instance, if you find someone in Switzerland and you want to know whether this person is a blood relative, you need two DNA kits: one for yourself and one for the other person. The same goes when you find your possible mother in Sri Lanka.
In Sri Lanka we provide DNA kits for mothers who gave op their child. They often don’t have the means to search for their child and the DNA database is their last hope. We manage their accounts and take care and the responsibility to inform the mothers when a match might lead to a link for an adoptee.