Not sure how you are related to your DNA match? Use the free “What Are the Odds?” WATO tool at DNA Painter to explore the possibilities and to help build a more accurate family tree. If you want to explore and compare different possibilities for how you might be...
A world-traveling, 86-year old adoptee takes an emotional journey to explore her birth roots. Here’s how it went finding her biological mother and sharing the news with her adoptive family. This story and related pictures are shared with the family’s permission. Etta...
There IS a way to download your family tree from FamilySearch so you can attach your tree to your DNA test results. Here’s how. When you build your family tree on the free genealogy website FamilySearch, you help contribute to a global, shared, public family tree....
These DNA reunion stories remind us that DNA testing can bring newfound relatives to your holiday table—metaphorically or literally. Is it time to give the gift of DNA testing to someone you love? We’re coming to the time of year when many of us will spend more time...
Do you have an unknown birth father OR mother? Here’s what to do to use DNA testing to identify your unknown biological parent, or at least to learn more about that parent’s family tree. If you have one known parent and one unknown parent, you may be able to use a...
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