Confessions of a Cryokid

What happens when artificially created bundles of joy begin to speak for themselves? Revolt! I'm a product of an anonymous sperm donor and now that I'm an adult I'm searching for answers and speaking out. And this is my story...

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May 2011:

Quick post on using FamilyFinder DNA

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June 2011:

Exciting News: "Donor Conceived Project" at FTDNA!!!

So you're thinking about doing a genealogical DNA test...

Jewish donors...a blessing and a curse for ancestral DNA testing

Top 10 things to do with your FTDNA raw data

What do my Family Finder results mean?

July 2011:

Official Release: Donor Conceived DNA Project!!

August 2011:

Got a cousin match...now what?!

September 2011:

The DNA Numbers Game

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Are you donor-conceived? Are you thinking about using a donor to conceive a child? Are you a parent of a donor-conceived child? Are you a former (or current) donor? Are you adopted and want to know more about the parallels between adoption and donor conception?

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“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” ~ Samuel Adams

Must Reads

A Father's Day Note
A letter to Prince Michael, Paris, and "Blanket" Jackson
A rose by any other name
All in the name of Mom
All the world's a stage...as long as the offspring follow the script
All you need is...love??
Best donor/sibling searching tools
DI is wrong and I'm not an ungrateful little brat!!
Happy Birthday to my father
Happy Thanksgiving...oh yeah, and be grateful to have been born
Inquiring wannabe moms really do wanna know
Misconceived Conceptions
Mommy dearest: A tribute to DI moms
More questions from inquiring wannabe moms
Religion isn't the answer (or even the question)
Shhh...it's a Secret
The "Oprah Effect"
The four stages of the donor conceived person
The Holy Trinity: God, Ethics, and ART?
The ignorant "experts" and the damage they cause
The Jerry Springer complex of network television
The pink elephant in the room
The reality of reunion...and what the media doesn't tell you
The unconstitutionality of anonymous sperm donation
Two years later...rejection
We Stand Together
Why do I do it?

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead

What everyone else is reading

What do my siblingship DNA test results mean?
All you need is...love??
The four stages of the donor conceived person
All in the name of Mom
DI is wrong and I'm not an ungrateful little brat!!
Genetic Sexual Attraction: Urban legend or ticking time bomb?
Comment of former sperm donor sparks outrage
The pink elephant in the room
BEWARE of Fairfax Cryobank (and Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc)!!!
Top 10 things to do with your FTDNA raw data

"In all of us there is a hunger, narrow and deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is a vacuum, an emptiness and a most disquieting loneliness!" ~ Alex Haley

Searching for donor families?

Registries:

Donor Sibling Registry
AmFOR Donor Offspring Registry
Donor Offspring Health Registry
Donor Offspring Matches Registry (defunct?)
California Cryobank (CCB) Sibling Registry
SMC Sibling Registry
Donor Sibling Groups Registry (private groups for specific donors)
Australian Donor Conception Registry
Scandinavian Seed Siblings Registry (Denmark)
SpenderKinder - Register (Germany)

DNA Databases:

Donor Conceived DNA Project at FTDNA - FamilyFinder & Y-STR tests
CaBRI Donor Gamete Archive - half siblings X/Y chromosome
UK DonorLink - CODIS marker half-siblings
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test (male only) - paternal line relatives
Y-Search: Y-DNA Public Database - paternal line relatives
FamilyFinder DNA Test (male & female) - paternal & maternal relatives
23andMe Test (male & female) - paternal/maternal relatives + medical information

Other Resources/Research Tools:

List of USA Sperm Banks/Clinics (historically)
Searching for my sperm donor father
1st Family Doctor (searching for former donor MDs)
DNA Testing Advisor (Adoption/DC DNA testing advice)
Eye Color Paternity Test
ABO Blood Type Paternity Test
Ask Kate (all about DNA and DNA testing)
Genetic Testing Laboratories (GTL)
Identigene
My Story Related
The Genetic Genealogist
E-Yearbook
Free Birthday Database
Ancestry.com (subscription required)

Offspring Bloggers

Donated Generation

South Australia Set to Give All Donor Conceived People Equal Rights to Information - The South Australian government handed down its response to the review of the A.R.T. Act and has given support to all donor conceived people in having acce...
7 years ago
The Anonymous Us Project

Episode 52 - "My 4 Children of Egg Donation I'll Never See": Speaking to her offspring, an egg donor laments her lack of contact with them, and insists that they are he...
8 years ago
Donor Conceived Perspectives: Voices from the Offspring

Susan Golombok, overstepping the line... - (***Got bias? According to "Professor" Susan Golombok, the only problem with so called 'donor' conception is stigmatisation from outside influences. In oth...
10 years ago
who do you think you are?

Does Biology Matter? - The front page of The New York Times' business section reports on a new scientific breakthrough: a noninvasive blood test that can determine paternity whi...
12 years ago
Strange Conceptions

Not Wasted - My year of delusion - the delusion that I was donor conceived - was not completely wasted. It allowed me to remember things about my family that I had repr...
13 years ago
My Father's Daughter

For My Dad - My dad died two weeks ago. His health had been declining due to PSP for about seven years. My mother called me on a Thursday to tell me that my dad wasn’t...
13 years ago
Offspringgirl

No Denying Donor Conception - Well, as much as I try to forget or deny the news three years ago of the way I was conceived it just comes back to mind. This knowledge, as "ah ha" and con...
13 years ago
Connect It Blog

Books on Artificial Insemination - A while back I asked for recommendations on Donor and AI books and never got around to providing background and links. Here is a list and links of what I ...
14 years ago
Journey into the bubble

A difficult week - A difficult week. I had my blood counts taken on Tuesday but was too ill to go in to see Dr Mead on Wednesday. He told me that although the new chemo ...
14 years ago
Child of a Stranger: Conception Through Anonymous Sperm Donation

Searches for biological fathers don't always have Hollywood endings - Read the full article at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075077-51.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml Monday, July 26, 2010 By Emily Fuggetta, Pittsburgh Post-...
14 years ago
It's Shawn Vandor's Blog Wow!

Barbara Lynn playing music in the kitchen -
15 years ago

"Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survive." ~ Veronica Chambers

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Family Scholars

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9 years ago
Children Have Rights - Say No to Repro Tech

Closing Time - I am once again officially closing this blog, as I do not have time to devote to this project at present. Thank you for reading and commenting. Sorry not t...
10 years ago
The Donor Who Dared To Say Don't

The Anonymous Us Project - *About the Anonymous Us Project* The Anonymous Us Project is a safety zone for real and honest opinions about reproductive technologies and family fragme...
14 years ago
DI Mom Chris (CLI #1073)

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DI Mom Teresa (Xytex #2203)

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Donor 67

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Anonymous Sperm Donor

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Donor, J

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Donor Conception Groups & Forums

The International Network of Donor Conception Organizations
Tangled Webs Inc.
Tangled Webs UK
People Conceived Via Artificial Insemination (PCVAI)
Offspring of Sperm Donors, Egg Donors, Surrogates, and Adoption (Facebook)
Donor Conceived Offspring (Facebook)
Rights for Donor Conceived People (Facebook)
My Daddy is a Test Tube: I Am Donor Conceived (Experience Project)
Donor Misconception
DSR Discussion
Procreation Medicalement Anonyme (France)
Stichting DonorKind (Nethlds)
Spenderkinder (Ger)
Blog IAD (Japan)

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” ~ Alice Stokes Paul

DC Stories

Child of a Stranger - By Kathleen Labounty, Offspring, Voices of Donor Conception
Louise's Story, Offspring, TangledWebs UK
RM's Story, DI Mother, TangledWebs UK
Sue's Story, Egg Donor Recipient Mother, TangledWebs UK
When The Children Grow Up - By Karen, Offspring, Voices of Donor Conception

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Resources & Infertility support groups

Infertility Network of Canada
Donor Conception - New York
Donor Conception Network (UK)
Donor Conception Support Group (Aus)
Association MAIA (France)

Talking to your kids about donor conception

DCN: Telling & Talking Guide for Parents (kids 8-11)
DCN: Telling & Talking Guide for Parents (kids 12-16)
DCN: Telling & Talking Guide for Parents (young adults 17+)

Labels

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Armenian Genocide Awareness

April 24, 1915: We Will Never Forget

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Lindsay: New York, New York, United States; I'm 27 years old and I was conceived in 1984 by Xytex sperm donor 2035. I am searching for my biological father and any half-siblings, while advocating and raising awareness about donor conception issues.

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Are you Xytex Donor 2035?

Born: February 12, 1961
Began donating: Sept. 30, 1982
Stopped donating: 1989
Race: Caucasian
Ethnicity: English, Scottish, Irish, German
Hair: Brown/Curly or Wavy
Eyes: Green
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 175 lbs
Build: Medium
Blood type: B+
Skin complexion: Medium
Religion: Baptist
Education: BS 1983, MD 1987
Family: Father born 1935; Mother born 1939; Sister born 1965

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” ~ William Shakespeare

I am...

Born: January 31, 1985
Ethnicity: Armenian, Czech
Hair: Dark brown/Curly
Eyes: Blue-green (with amber central heterochromia)
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 145 lbs
Build: Medium/Athletic
Skin Complexion: Medium w/ freckles
Blood Type: O+
Education: BS (Biology), MLIS
Occupation: Reference and Instruction Librarian
Interests: reading, genetics, genealogy, research, writing, psychology, shopping, photography, animals, traveling, sports
About Me: I'm a left handed, right brained, slightly scatterbrained, perfectionist (ENFP)

1980's Donor Lists

CLI Donor List 1986
CLI Donor List 1987
Fairfax Donor List 1989
Xytex Donor List 1983-1984

1990's Donor Lists

CLI Donor List 1990
CLI Donor List 1995
Fairfax Donor List Aug. 1993
Fairfax Donor List Jul. 1990
Repromed Ltd. Donor List Summer 1993
Zygen Donor List June 1996

Seeking Old Donor Lists

I am looking for donor lists from sperm banks and clinics from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. If you have a donor list that you would like to contribute, please email me! I am especially looking for donor lists pre-1990!!

I provide these old donor lists for parents and offspring as a service to help those who may not have a donor number to be able to narrow down what donors were donating when they were conceived. This is especially important for those conceived pre-1995, as after that many old donor lists can be accessed through the Internet Archive. These lists can also be vital for donors seeking their donor number (especially those from Fairfax Cryobank - b/c donors are not provided with their donor numbers!).

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government" ~ Thomas Jefferson

Academic Articles

Donor information considered important to donors, recipients and offspring: an Australian perspective - IS. Rodino et al, Reproductive BioMedicine Online, November 2010
"I just want more information about who I am": the search experience of sperm-donor offspring, searching for information about their donors and genetic heritage - A. Cushing, Information Research 15(2), June 2010
My Daddy's Name is Donor: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived through Sperm Donation - E. Marquardt, N. Glenn, & K. Clark, Institute of American Values, May 31, 2010
A critical analysis of sperm donation practices: the personal and social effects of disrupting the unity of biological and social relatedness for the offspring - J. Rose, QUT Thesis, 2009
Implications of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy transmitted by sperm donation - B.J. Maron et al., JAMA 302(15), 2009, 1681-4
The views of adult offspring of sperm donation: essential feedback for the development of guidelines within the practice of assisted reproductive technology in the United States - P. Mahlstedt & K. Labounty, Fertility & Sterility, 2009 [E-pub ahead of print]
A Creation Myth for the 21st Century - L. Singh, Mercatornet, Jan 9, 2009
Donated Generation - C. Miller, The New Atlantis, Summer 2008, pp. 28-44
Proposal to bring donor-conceived people's birth certification into line with that of all other UK citizens - R. Rushbrooke, Bulletin of Medical Ethics, April 29, 2008
Love and Non-Existence - J. D. Velleman, Dept of Philosophy, NYU, Sept 16, 2007
The Gift of Life - J. D. Velleman, Dept of Philosophy, NYU, Sept 11, 2007
Donor conception - Michael Linden, The Australian Rationalist, 6 December 2006 (lecture)
Misconception - Myfanwy Walker, The Australian Rationalist, 6 December 2006 (lecture)
The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children's Needs - E. Marquardt, Institute of American Values, 2006
Artificial reproduction, the 'welfare principle', and the common good - J. Laing and D. Oderberg, Medical Law Review, 13, Autumn 2005, pp. 328-356
Sperm donation: The mediation of kinship and identity issues for the offspring - J. Rose, Conference on Mental Health Aspects of Family Separation, Oct 2004
Viewpoint: Legal challenges to donor anonymity - L. Shanner, Health Law Review, 11(3), 2003, pp. 25-28
From a 'bundle of joy' to a person with sorrow: Disenfranchised grief for the donor-conceived adult - J. Rose, QUT Applied Ethics Conference, 2001
The Right to Know: Secrecy and 'donor' conception - M. Millar, The Australian Rationalist, 53, Autumn 2000, pp. 20-24
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nov 1989

"Adoption [and donor conception] loss is the only trauma in the world where the victims are expected by the whole of society to be grateful." ~ The Reverend Keith Griffith

Adoptee Bloggers

Forbidden Family

Small Bits of African DNA in My White European Genome - “Trace Ancestry” In 2014, I learned that I had “0.4% trace ancestry”. About two years later, “trace ancestry” was identified as Nigerian. I shook my head i...
2 years ago
Adopted Jane

Aboveground Pools: Your Cleaning Options - [image: above ground pools] Image: bluehaven.com.au All across the United States, there are many homeowners that have pools in their backyards. Unfortunat...
3 years ago
The Declassified Adoptee

Dumping a Social Worker's Cards on the Table: Adoption Cannot Solve Abortion - "Everyone has strengths within them that can create solutions. They just need some organizing." I repeat this phrase often to my students. I repeat it in...
6 years ago
The Improper Adoptee

Killing Candace....... - I have already established that the Closed Adoption System always has been and still is part of a dark agenda in my last post. And I'm sorry to say, but...
9 years ago
Anti-Adoption

I’m here - I am now blogging at my new blog Ripening Me http://www.ripeningme.com its not always adoption related issues, but sometimes it will be 🙂 Hope to see you ...
9 years ago
The Daily Bastardette

Daiily Bastardette moving to Word Press - After a couple years of talking to myself about it, I have decided to transfer *The Daily Bastardette* from Blogger to Word Press. The final straw cam...
11 years ago
Baby Love Child

Today, voting opened on Pound Pup Legacy’s Seventh Annual Demons of Adoption Awards - Each year, Pound Pup Legacy holds their annual Demons of Adoption Awards. This year’s ballot can be found here. In the nomination process in the run up to ...
11 years ago
BastardGrannyAnnie

NOVEMBER 15TH: NOT A RED LETTER DAY FOR EVERY ILLINOIS ADOPTEE - NOVEMBER 15TH : NOT A RED LETTER DAY FOR EVERY ILLINOIS ADOPTEE Illinois adoptees all over the country are celebrating since November 15th. On that date,...
13 years ago
Ungrateful Little Bastard

Please vote for ISRR at Chase Community Giving - Seriously. Nothing makes me crankier than seeing adoption agencies with more votes than the great-granddaddy of the adoption community. Just in case you're...
15 years ago
Mia's Saving Grace

HUGE OPEN RECORDS NEWS - THIS is worth coming out of hibernation for; 9 News out of Denver, Colorado reports- “LITTLETON – It’s something many of us may take for granted, knowing y...
16 years ago
Possum's Place

Adoptee's DENIED. - Adoptee Rights Demonstration - Philadelphia, USA - July 21, 2009.PLEASE PASS THIS ON - it rocks!!!(also head over to YouTube - and add some stars - favouri...
16 years ago
Misplaced Baggage

Searching… - Where has the time gone? It was almost a year ago that I received an email from a television show that offered to help search for my supposed Vietnamese f...
16 years ago
73adoptee

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Adoption and Its Triad

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“Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live forever as a child.” ~ Cicero

Adoption links

Abolish Adoption
Adoptee Rights Demonstration
Adoption Agencies Exploit People, not "just genes"
Adoption Crossroads
Adoption Reform and Family Issues
American Adoption Congress
Americans For Open Records (AmFOR)
Anti-Adoption Confusion
Babyselling (b-dad fights for daughter)
Bastard Nation
Ethica: A Voice for Ethical Adoption
Happy Adoptees - By Julie A. Rist, 2002
Healing Families Dismembered by Adoption - And Adopting Children BACK!
Musings of the Lame (b-mom blog)
Open Adoption Support Group
Origins USA
Son of a Surrogate
The Adoption Show
The Chronicles of Munchkinland (b-mom blog)
Third Mom (a-mom blog)
This Woman's Work (a-mom blog)
VANISH (Aus)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." ~ John 8:32

Donor conception in the media

Kathleen LaBounty on Swedish Radio program Verkligheten ("Reality") - Swedish NPR, March 29, 2009
Bay Area girl finds sperm donor father on Myspace - By Dr. Kim Mulihill, CBS 5 San Francisco, Nov 20, 2008
Sperm (feat. Kathleen LaBounty) - NPR (wnyc.org), Radio Lab, Nov 21, 2008
All About Me, Episode 1 - Elliot Conroy's Story, Teacher TV, Nov 17, 2008
Who's Your (Donor) Daddy? - Momlogic, Sept 25, 2008
Looking for sperm and egg donor roots - The TODAY Show, Sept 19, 2008
Who Am I - Tennessee Bioethics, Aug 14, 2008 (YouTube)
Woman on Biological Quest to Find Father - By Andrea Watkins, Fox 26 Houston, March 3, 2008
I just found out my dad is not my biological father - By Travis Lambert, Feb 24, 2008 (YouTube)
The Ultimate Reunion: When dad is a sperm donor - Oprah, Feb 8, 2008
Houston Women use MySpace to Reunite Families - Fox 26 Houston, Nov 15, 2007
Sperm Donor Sibling Reunion - The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, Sept 17, 2007
"The Donor" scene - Friends, Sept 16, 2007 (YouTube)
Cartoons for Child Rights: "Identity" - UNICEF, Oct 17, 2006 (YouTube)
Secrets of the Fathers: The gift of life or a social experiment gone wrong?, Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), Oct 2005 (YouTube)

Just 4 Fun

Bored.com
CollegeHumor
Damn You Auto-Correct
Drew Curtis' FARK.com
mental_floss
Myers-Briggs Personality Test
Post Secret
Something Awful: The Internet Makes You Stupid
The Darwin Awards: A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises
The Onion: America's Finest News Source

“What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they'll be lucky to be present at the conception.” ~ George H. Davies