Pearis Tullius Garrett
COMPASSIONATE. DOER. SEEKER. In 2011 my mother started to document our family tree and joined Ancestry.com. As DNA kits became more popular, she submitted her own. Several years later she […]
Carol Laufer Covarrubias
COMPASSIONATE. LOYAL. THOUGHTFUL. I was always told by my mom that we had Native American ancestors from my dad Robert’s side of the family. For more than 25 years, I
Heather Roan Robbins
MONTANAN. ASTROLOGER. WRITER. I got the shock right before I turned 65 last summer. It started with a dream, an ordinary wafting story suddenly sharpened focus and someone handed me
Lorna Williams Littrell
DEVOTED. CARING. ADVENTUROUS. Have you always known who you were? I mean, really known, for sure? Not philosophically, but physically, genetically… The reality is that we only know what we
Lisa Swyer
STRONG. DETERMINED. FAITHFUL. In late 2014 I ordered a home DNA kit from Ancestry because I was interested in learning about where my ancestors came from. My father always told
Erin Maya
TRUTH-SEEKER. TENACIOUS. EMPATHIC. My dad, Pat, was sick with cancer my entire life. He went in and out of remission so many times it became like “the boy who cried
Talona Davis
WARM-HEARTED. FORGIVING. INFLUENTIAL. My story began in January of 2017. The loss of my father was shocking, devastating, and heartbreaking for me. I looked at my father like Superman; non-destructive
Melissa V.
ADVENTUROUS. DEDICATED. CREATIVE. I was born in 1980 in Seattle, Washington to a self-loving woman and her husband, my birth certificate father, who she’d married six months before I was
Kevin Martin
CREATIVE. INTROSPECTIVE. INQUISITIVE. I was born in London, Ontario Canada in September 1986 with the help of an anonymous sperm donor. My mother’s husband at the time was infertile so
Gabrielle Pattillo
WELCOMING. DETERMINED. CARING. My mom happened to be the genealogy queen of the family, so I decided for her birthday in July that I’d buy her a DNA test from