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Who’s your daddy? Using DNA to find find unknown parents

May 9, 2021May 9, 2021 Lina GoldbergDNA2 Comments on Who’s your daddy? Using DNA to find find unknown parents

Wondering how to start the process of using DNA research and genealogy to find your biological family, or help an adoptee do the same? Here are a few tips. Get tested at both Ancestry and 23andMe. Both have big databases but you can’t compare your results to the people in…

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When doing DNA research consider adoption’s troubled history

May 1, 2021May 9, 2021 Lina GoldbergDNALeave a Comment on When doing DNA research consider adoption’s troubled history
American baby adoptions

Like most genealogists who have taken a DNA test or three, I’ve come across several adoptees in my DNA match list. I was intensely curious about where these people fit in my family tree, but I had never given much thought to the process behind these adoptions, or known that…

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Based in Glasgow. Obsessively researching family history in the Russian Empire, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom and beyond.

If any of the names that I am researching sound familiar and you think we might be cousins, or you need help with your research, please get in touch.

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