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Solving the Puzzle

1. The Hardest Puzzle of My Life

May 25, 2019 holowach

I am an only child, adopted as a newborn, as I discovered while a young teen in upstate New York.…

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5. Disambiguation

May 30, 2019 holowach

Disambiguation is a word I stole from Wikipedia. Cambridge Dictionary describes it as “The fact of showing the differences between…

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4. Building the Cousin Cloud

May 26, 2019 holowach

After my initial excitement… and then disappointment… I realized that I didn’t have the easy answer I thought I did,…

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3. The First Results

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Finally, on June 12 of 2017, I got the exciting email from Ancestry telling me that the results were ready…

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2. Practicing with my Adoptive Family Tree

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The next thing you do after you spit in a tube and send it for DNA Sequencing is wait… a……

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