By: Carol

I highly recommend the Donor Sibling Registry website as a place for families of donor conceived kids to connect. If you know the sperm bank that you used and the number of the donor, you can use that information to learn about other half-siblings. The website has plenty of privacy protections built in, and you can go as slow or as fast as you want to as you learn about others. Through the website we have connected with many families who used the same donor. Like the author above, the experience has been so much more than we could have hoped for. We connect online, and meet up in person with local families. The kids (ages 5 - 11 now) have known each other for 5 years or so, and easily connect with each other, kind of like cousins might. We moms love to talk about their personality traits and interests, trying to sort out which parts might have been inherited from the donor. It has been an amazing experience!