Amanda Prescott
EXPLORER. RESEARCHER. MENTOR. “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” I was in college and had an inkling that I was really different from the rest of […]
Dr. Nicole Price
RESILIENT. EMPATHETIC. CURIOUS. Do you know who the favorite is in your family? If you don’t, NEWSFLASH—it’s likely you. As the sixth of seven children, I always believed I was
Debbie Olson
COURAGEOUS. SUPPORTIVE. POSITIVE. I grew up always knowing my “dad” was not my biological father. I was 6 years old when my stepdad adopted me. I was raised to believe
Brittany Ashworth
EVOLVING. RESILIENT. HOPEFUL. I took an Ancestry DNA test, and my world was flipped upside down when I got my results July 26, 2021. Oddly enough, I finally decided to purchase
Monica Hall
Adopted during infancy, Monica’s childhood is marked by trauma and dysfunction. As a teenager, she dulls her pain with risky behavior and petty crime. In adulthood, she turns to drugs
Angie DeLuca
HEALING. GENERATIONAL. TRAUMA. :::Trigger Warning::: This true story contains incidents of abuse, rape, and incest.::: My maternal great grandfather was a Grand Imperial Wizard in the KKK. After he was
Susan Penwarden
RELENTLESS. CARING. PATIENT. Easter weekend, 1967 while my father’s great aunt we received a call to say that my maternal grandmother had died. I was the oldest of four, my
NORMA GOULD
GUARDED. EMPATHETIC. LOVING. How to do you put your life story into a page? You leave out a lot of the darkest parts of the journey and pray it makes
Dawn VanGorkum
COURAGEOUS. CARING. GRIEF STRICKEN. For nearly 43 years I lived a lie. I had no clue. My dad that raised me was also clueless. My mother claims she did not
Laurie McBriarty
CURIOUS. RESILIENT. CHEERFUL. Being a lifelong genealogist, I was super excited to DNA test at Ancestry. When I got my results back in September 2012, I didn’t notice anything unusual.