Michigan Adoption Record #39942

Michigan Adoption Record: # 39942

Adoptee looking for Any Birth Family
Holly Minko

Adoptee's Info
Birth Name: Helen
Adoptive Name: Holly Ann Zarka
Date of Birth: Dec 1, 1966 at 9:20 pm (now 57 years old)
Gender: Female
Birth Location: Detroit city, Wayne county, Michigan USA

Birthmother's Info
Name: Unknown
Born: 1948 (now 76 years old)
Age at Adoptee's Birth: 18
Religion: Unknown

Birthfather's Info
Name: Unknown
Born: 1941 (now 83 years old)
Age at Adoptee's Birth: 25
Religion: Unknown

Born at Hospital: Holy Cross
Birth Certificate:
Adoption Agency: Catholic Social Services

Additional Info
Hello, I am searching for my birth family. I have hit so many road blocks, I am turing to you for help.
*I have my DNA test on file at 23andMe.com and Ancestry.com and I was able to bulid my 'DNA Tree' as I found a second and third cousin (Mother and Daughter) through 23andMe who gave me a little bit of their family history/family tree. Using that information along with DNA hits I was able to start building my 'DNA Tree' in Ancestry but I seem to find more dead ends than potential leads and cannot make contact with any closer relatives so far.
*I have my Non-ID Information in PDF form and in a word document that can be copied and pasted, I am willign to share if it helps with the search. It is lengthy at 3 pages long. Here are a few things from that document:

*Birth Info: DOB-Dec 1, 1966, Holy Cross Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. Name give at birth was Helen.

Birth Mother: Born in 1948 (18 y.o. at time of birth) in MIchigan. Polish descent. Roman Catholic. My BM gave me up because my birth Father wouldn't give her $1,000 a month in child support or marry her. Instead by her account he went straight to hiring a lawyer when he learned about the pregnancy, determined to deny paternity at all.

Maternal Grandparents: both born in 1917, in Michigan. It is said my Grandfather was a drunk and my Grandmother was eccentric.

Siblings: Birth mother was of three children. A brother, 24, lived at home and did not know of the pregnancy. Another brother who died at the age of 18 in 1962 in a motor cycle accident.

Birth Father: 25 years old. Danish descent. Possibly worked for his Father.

With the help of friends and other users I do have some good leads on Ancestry still to explore. I think I may have found my birth father by narrowing down the more distant genetic matches. I tried to contact a few people in the exteded family via Facebook and Twitter with no success but cannot find ancestry information on my father himself although I feel he is still alive from the little I know in public records. I have theroires on potential surmanes for my birth mother by attempting to match personal details from the court file to old newspaper clippings. I have not been able to conncet to any of these leads to any of the DNA testing.

I feel that with better training on how to analyze this information there must be a way to fit these puzzle pieces together. I continue to search daily through online newspaper archives, Google, and Ancestry.com.

I would be so grateful if anyone would be willign to help me in my search.
-HollyRegistered: June 1, 2016