325Kamra - Reuniting families through DNA

10/18/2026

Friendly reminder to all, we distribute FamilyTreeDNA (aka FTDNA kits). We don't have our own kits, we don't have our own DNA lab.

If there are issues with transfers, please refer to FTDNA's helpful guide
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415446123663-Autosomal-DNA-Transfers

Thank you for your understanding.

If you or a family member have previously tested your autosomal DNA at AncestryDNA®, 23andMe®, or MyHeritage®, you can transfer your results to FamilyTreeDNA for free by uploading your raw data fil...

10/05/2026

we migrated from constantcontact to zeffy for our contact management solution. we plan on resuming our newsletter soon and we will have a separate emailing list for events. please sign up if you haven't already on 325kamra.org.

thank you!

10/03/2026

Thank you for your patience as we work through kit distribution. With IKAA coming up, we may need to support testing for as many as 600 KADs. We are not sure of the final number yet, and there have not been many kit transfers so far, so we have had to set aside a majority of our existing kits for this event.

That is why we ask anyone traveling to Korea to transfer their DNA ahead of time or request a kit in advance. We are also in the process of ordering new kits. We are a very small team of volunteers serving thousands of adoptees, military families, and people searching for lost Korean family members. Our goal is to distribute kits and test people in Korea next year so we can create more DNA matches and more reunions.

There are sometimes unforeseen delays with kit distribution and processing, and we ask for a little more grace while we work through them. Thank you again for your patience. We look forward to continuing to serve the Korean community.

09/29/2026

Omma has been looking for her son for decades. She has dna tested with us at Ancestry, FTDNA, 23andme and Gedmatch. the post includes a couple of infant/toddler pictures and an age progressed one

09/29/2026

Please consider transferring your DNA if you tested at Myheritage, 23andme or Ancestry to FTDNA before coming to Korea for IKAA. this will help us to save a dna kit for someone who has not DNA tested at all and you will receive results within about 24-48 hours. Please refer to the repost for further instructions.

thank you!

Below are instructions on how to download your dna from the various DNA sites and uploading to FTDNA and GedmatchDownload your raw DNA data from 23andMe, Ancestry, and/or MyHeritage.Upload to FTDNA. Skip this step if you already tested with or have transferred data to FTDNA.Upload to Gedmatch follow...

09/16/2026

We have had the privilege of assisting many of the adoptees in her films with finding their American GI fathers as well as their Korean families. We have also assisted so many more over the decade. In majority of the cases, we have found their Korean side because they had a Korean half sibling or niece/nephew that tested. If you haven’t tested yet, please go to our website 325Kamra.org and request an FTDNA kit. If you have tested elsewhere, please consider transferring your kit if possible. Please see our previous post about transferring.

09/16/2026

For those of you attending Ikaa 2026 please review this blog post regarding transferring your DNA results. It will take a couple of days to get this done because there is a delay between requesting the existing results and being able to get the file to upload. Please consider transferring to ftdna and gedmatch. If there are issues, please email us at [email protected] and we will assist. It would be awesome to be able to facilitate a reunion.

Below are instructions on how to download your dna from the various DNA sites and uploading to FTDNA and GedmatchDownload your raw DNA data from 23andMe, Ancestry, and/or MyHeritage.Upload to FTDNA. Skip this step if you already tested with or have transferred data to FTDNA.Upload to Gedmatch follow...

08/27/2026

Congratulations on the Full Sisters that just matched with us. They were adopted to the same family together which is a gift considering the result of Korean adoptions and family separation over the decades

08/20/2026

We were given a name of someone who lived in the US. Fingers crossed that the information is accurate.

08/20/2026

Sister looking for her sister born in 1962

KSS Adoptee supposedly adopted by an AmericanIf you think this could be you please send a request for an FTDNA kit at [email protected] if you haven't tested.