MPE Narrative

TECHNOLOGIST. BILINGUAL. FAMILY MAN. In May of 2018, after taking advantage of a 23andme.com Mother’s Day 2 for 1 special, my wife, kids and I got health and ancestry kits

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

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

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

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

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

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