New York: Ryan Kramer, a young boy conceived using an anonymous sperm donor, always wanted to know something about his father.
Unable to find the donor himself, Kramer struck on the next best thing: contacting others who shared the same paternal blood - his half-brothers and sisters.
Kramer's simple dream has since turned into a website that has connected nearly two thousand people to genetic relatives, the children of mothers who shared the same sperm donors.
Run by Kramer's mother Wendy, the Internet-based Donor Sibling Registry allows children of sperm donors who are over 18, their mothers and donors themselves to register to find out about each other.
"At the beginning I just had this curious child," says Wendy Kramer. "He had always been curious about his donor, what he called 'the invisible side' of himself.
"And knowing that he may never get to know who the donor was, he thought: 'Well, if there is a brother or sister perhaps I can see that invisible part of myself, and see that in another person, because we all share half of our DNA," says he.
That quest turned into the website she runs from her Colorado home, www.donorsiblingregistry.com, which today has nearly 7,000 registered users.
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