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 […]
MPE Narrative
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
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.
Justin Jenkins
It changed so much for me, specifically how I perceived myself. If you are not in a similar situation, I understand it’s hard to grasp why it is so life changing, but it does change things, dramatically. I felt lost and that some fundamental part of my identity had been stolen from me.
Penelope Cumler
TRUTH TELLER. PERSISTENT. INTUITIVE. So much of my childhood was confusing and made no sense. They said this, and yet my reality was that. Was I the only one who
Kristen Hanff
LOYAL. FUNNY. DETERMINED. I had no idea that when I resigned from a position I enjoyed, my life was on the verge of changing in a way I never saw