About LinksDNA

Our founder, Laurie Kantor Finn, has been dedicated to capturing today’s events to shape tomorrow’s history since being selected as her class historian in high school. Laurie has documented major life events, through photography and storytelling, for her family, friends, and colleagues. She continued on that journey after completing her Sociology degree at UCLA, in a career in television production and journalism. Always interested in investigating and telling a good story whether in entertainment news, magazine articles, or television casting, programming & production, Laurie has consistently been one curious producer.

Our founder, Laurie Kantor Finn, has been dedicated to capturing today’s events to shape tomorrow’s history since being selected as her class historian in high school. Laurie has documented through photography and storytelling major life events for her family, friends, and colleagues. She continued on that journey after completing her Sociology degree at UCLA, in a career in television production and journalism. Always interested in investigating and telling a good story whether in entertainment news, magazine articles, or television programming…she has always been one curious producer.

As the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors on her paternal side, she was captivated by the family stories reluctantly shared over the years. This fascination, coupled with her maternal great-grandparents’ migration journeys, ignited a passion for genealogy, leading her to ferociously build out her family tree for decades. Most importantly, through the process, was to preserve stories and share them with others. In 2018, when she finally took a commercial DNA test, the world opened up, and her love for discovering the power of genetic genealogy was born. Laurie’s first case was helping a cousin adopted out of her family find her biological parents and grew to solving numerous adoption and misattributed parentage cases over the years.

Laurie has since honed her skills in the field of investigative genetic genealogy (IGG), completed Ramapo College of New Jersey’s IGG Certification Program where she was able to contribute work on several unknown human remains cases, and further expanded her skills by attending the intensive IGG Bootcamp at Ramapo College. She continues to volunteer with their IGG center and as a Search Angel with DNA Detectives. In her free time, she listens to true crime podcasts, enjoys travel/photography/food, seeks the perfect chocolate chip cookie, and connects with her DNA matches online and through travel.

The LinksDNA mission is to bring attention to the amazing field of IGG (also known as FGG, Forensic GG – and FIGG) and to use DNA to connect the links! The services provided help adoptees and those with unknown and misattributed parentage get answers about their biological families. The LinksDNA staff and volunteers aid law enforcement agencies with identifying unknown human remains and create leads in violent crime cases. Lastly, IGG is used to help exonerate the wrongfully convicted by providing services to innocence projects and those seeking the truth. The links are in the DNA and we look forward to connecting them for you.