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

May 9, 2021May 9, 2021 LinaDNA2 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 LinaDNALeave 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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