Uniting the stolen, empowering the search

 

Our vital mission: finding biological origins.

At Fireborn Free, our primary goal is to provide essential resources and support for individuals stolen through black market adoption networks, helping them to find their biological origins. We understand the profound impact of this journey and are committed to guiding you every step of the way.

 

You downloaded your raw data. You uploaded it to the platforms. Now what?

This page is for the people who did everything right and still did not find their Native heritage in the results. It did not disappear. It got buried. What follows is the methodology to dig it back out.

This is not a shortcut. It is a process. You will run your data through multiple tools, cross-reference what they return, and build your picture from what they all agree on. No single calculator tells the whole truth. All of them together start to.

One important note before you begin. Every tribal line is different. The specific segments that surface for someone connected to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will not look identical to someone connected to the Cherokee Nation or the Lakota. What this process gives you is the framework to find your specific truth, not a one size fits all answer.

This method has been used to trace ancestry directly to the Columbia Plateau and Northwest tribal lines, including a confirmed chromosomal connection to the Ancient One, also known as Kennewick Man, through shared segments on Chromosomes 1, 2, and 7. That did not show up on Ancestry. It showed up here.

 

 

STEP ONE: GEDMATCH SETUP

 

If you have not already uploaded your zip file to GEDmatch, go back to the DNA Raw Data Zip File page and follow those steps first. Do not move forward until your kit number is active and processed. GEDmatch will show you a green checkmark when it is ready.

Once your kit is active, you are not looking for matches yet. You are going into the admixture tools. Here is how to get there.

On your GEDmatch dashboard, look for the section called Analyze Your DNA. Inside that section you will find a link called Admixture and Archeology. Click that.

 

You will see a list of calculators. This is where most people stop because they do not know what they are looking at. Do not stop here. You are going to run four specific tools in a specific order.

Before you run anything, on that same screen where you enter your kit number, you will see a field that says Minimum Segment cM. Change that number to 5. This filters out noise, meaning DNA fragments too small to be reliable. They are interference, not real ancestry signals. This one adjustment changes everything about the accuracy of what you are about to see.

 

The four tools you are running are:

MDLP World-22

Eurogenes K13

Oracle

Oracle-4

These are not the same thing with different names. Each one uses a different reference population model. Running all four and comparing what they return across your chromosomes is what separates a real picture from a buried one.

Start with MDLP World-22. When you click it you will be asked to enter your kit number. Enter it exactly as GEDmatch shows it on your dashboard. Select the Admixture Proportions by Chromosome option. This is critical. You are not looking at the overall percentage. You are looking at it broken down chromosome by chromosome.

Run it. Save or screenshot your results before moving on.

 

STEP TWO: EUROGENES K13

Once you have your MDLP World-22 chromosome results saved, go back to the calculator list and select Eurogenes K13. Enter your kit number the same way, make sure your Minimum Segment cM is still set to 5, and again select Admixture Proportions by Chromosome before you run it.

Eurogenes K13 uses a different reference population model than MDLP World-22. Where MDLP may label a segment one way, Eurogenes may return something slightly different on the same chromosome. That is not a contradiction. That is information.

What you are looking for are the components that show up as Siberian, American, or East Asian across your chromosomes. Do not dismiss anything labeled Siberian or East Asian without cross referencing it first. As documented on this site, AncestryDNA deliberately reassigns Native American segments into those categories. What looks like East Asian in one calculator may be confirming the same Native segment that MDLP flagged differently.

Write down or screenshot every chromosome where those components appear and what percentage they show. You are building a map, not reading a single result.

Save your Eurogenes K13 results before moving on.

 

STEP THREE: ORACLE AND ORACLE-4

Oracle and Oracle-4 are not separate calculators. They are interpretation tools that run on top of the admixture results you already generated. They take your percentages and compare them against known population models to tell you what combination of ancestral populations best fits your specific genetic signature.

To run them, go back into either your MDLP World-22 or Eurogenes K13 results. At the bottom of your results page you will see links for Oracle and Oracle-4. Run both from both calculators. That gives you four Oracle outputs total.

Oracle gives you your single best population fit. Oracle-4 gives you a blended fit using up to four populations combined. For people with Native ancestry, Oracle-4 is where things start to get specific. It will return population combinations that may include references to Siberian, Mesoamerican, American, or Northwest specific populations depending on your tribal line.

What you are looking for is consistency. When MDLP World-22 Oracle-4 and Eurogenes K13 Oracle-4 both point to overlapping Native or Siberian adjacent populations on the same chromosomes you flagged earlier, that is not coincidence. That is confirmation.

Write down every population reference that appears across all four Oracle outputs. Circle anything that repeats across more than one. Those repeating references are your signal. That is where your true ancestry is sitting, buried under whatever label Ancestry put on it.

 

STEP FOUR: CROSS REFERENCING YOUR RESULTS

You now have results from four tools across multiple chromosomes. This is where you stop running and start reading what you collected.

Pull up everything you saved or screenshotted. You are looking for three things.

First, which chromosomes showed up in more than one calculator with a Native, Siberian, American, or East Asian component. If Chromosome 7 flagged in MDLP World-22 and flagged again in Eurogenes K13, that chromosome is telling you something real.

Second, which population references repeated across your Oracle and Oracle-4 outputs. If Northwest American or Siberian or Mesoamerican showed up in more than one Oracle result, that is not noise. That is a pattern.

Third, where those chromosomes and those population references overlap. When the same chromosome keeps flagging and the Oracle outputs keep pointing to the same population region, you have found your buried ancestry.

This is how a confirmed chromosomal connection to the Ancient One, Kennewick Man, was established through shared segments on Chromosomes 1, 2, and 7. None of that appeared on Ancestry. It appeared here, through this process, because the raw data was clean and the right tools were used to read it.

Document everything you find. Write it down with the calculator name, the chromosome number, the component label, and the percentage. That documentation is yours. It is evidence. It belongs to you and your family.

 

WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT YOU FOUND

Your results from this process are not official tribal enrollment documentation on their own. But they are a powerful starting point that belongs in your hands before you take another step anywhere else.

First, save everything. Every screenshot, every percentage, every chromosome flag, every Oracle output. Create a folder and label it with your name and the date you ran each tool. This is your evidence file.

Second, do not go back to Ancestry to argue with the results. You already know what they did with your data and why. Your truth is in what you just built, not in what they chose to show you.

Third, if you are pursuing tribal enrollment or trying to confirm a biological connection to a known Native family member, bring this documentation with you. It shows the specific chromosomes, the specific population components, and the cross referenced pattern across multiple independent tools. That is a far more complete picture than a single platform's filtered result.

Fourth, if your results pointed to a specific tribal region, use that as your starting point for genealogical research. The DNA Roadmap page on this site walks through how to connect your chromosomal picture to documented family lines.

You are not at the end of your search. You are at the beginning of the real one. The difference is now you have the tools to read what was always there.

If you found something through this process and want to share your story, go to Our Stories. Your experience may be exactly what someone else needs to find their truth.