Our father’s family came from Massachusetts, and our mother’s roots traced back to Alabama. They met in California and we all believed they were the first from either side to venture this far west—aside from our mother’s uncle, who settled in California after serving in the Navy during World War II. That belief began toContinue reading “The Remarkable Coincidences of Ancestral Migration”
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How a Close DNA Match Unraveled Both Our Family Mysteries
For years, I had a couple of close cousin DNA matches on Ancestry that stood out as intriguing mysteries. This is the story of one of those matches—how it led me to uncover the identity of my grandmother’s biological mother, and in turn, helped my DNA match discover her own parentage. It all started inContinue reading “How a Close DNA Match Unraveled Both Our Family Mysteries”
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