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Educating, Connecting & Supporting Donor Families

The DSR has helped to connect more than

16,973*

offspring with their half siblings and/or their donors.

So far, the Donor Sibling Registry has

63,835* members

including donors, parents and donor conceived people.

*These numbers are updated nightly

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Who We Are

Wendy and Ryan Kramer

The Donor Sibling Registry (DSR) was created in September 2000, by Wendy Kramer and her son, Ryan. Certain that other donor offspring would have the same curiosity as Ryan about his genetic origins - yet also knowing that sadly, no public outlet existed for mutual consent contact between people born from anonymous sperm or egg donation, this site was started as the logical next step to making those connections.

In addition to the registered members, several thousand people check the site regularly. The DSR averages more than 16,000 unique visitors to the site each month and is a worldwide organization, matching people in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, S. Africa, S. Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, The Netherlands, Turkey, the USA, and the UK.

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How to Use the Donor Sibling Registry

To Find Family:  You must add your posting to the DSR before contacting any other member. After you add your posting, you will then get automatic DSR emails when you have a match, when a DSR member has sent you a message, and when anyone who has used your donor adds information to the medical page that is specifically for your donor. Just because you don't see someone already listed with your donor number, doesn't mean you don't have a match. Many people are out there waiting to post until they see another posting for their donor - so be the first!

Make sure to always have an up-to-date email address listed on the DSR and please note: you must add your posting before contacting any DSR member.

And please, never sign up with a second username- either the site can send you your password, or just email Wendy to re-set it!

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Where We Are: DSR Members Around the World

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My brother Jason and I have the same donor and were born 8 months apart. He found my DSR profile on New Year's Day of 2014, and we met each other in person shortly after. We felt an instant connection, and feel so lucky to have found each other. This picture is from my wedding in 2015. You can see how close we've become! All thanks to you and the DSR.

Catherine
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DSR Research

  • 2018 DSR Research Tree Booklet

    An Online Research Summary Booklet of DSR Published Research

  • Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2017

    "Long-Term Breast Cancer Risk Following Ovarian Stimulation in Young Egg Donors: A Call for Follow-up, Research, and Informed Consent."

  • Collaboration with the University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge in the UK, in coordination with the New School in NY, conducted face-to-face interviews with DSR families to obtain more in-depth information about the experiences of contact amongst families." 2 papers in 2016:

  • Fertility and Sterility

    This study was undertaken by the Centre for Family Research (CFR) at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the DSR "Integrating donor conception into identity development: Adolescents in fatherless families." 

  • Children and Society

    This study was undertaken by the Centre for Family Research (CFR) at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the DSR. Twenty-three donor-conceived adolescents aged 12-19 years living in single mother or dual parent lesbian households...

  • Journal of Family Issues

    This article replicates an earlier study of mothers who had used the same sperm donor to conceive their children and connected through the Internet.The original study finds that these groups interact mainly on the Internet; donor siblings are latent affiliations that could...

  • Social Science and Medicine

    This paper compares three groups of gestational mothers who relied on gametes from donors they did not know. The three groups are women who have conceived with donor sperm and their own eggs, women who have conceived with donor eggs and a partner's sperm...

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