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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

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

DRIVEN. PERSISTENT. DETERMINED. I was three years old when my dad left, and when he was gone, so was any link I had to his family. No one came looking

OBSERVING. ADVOCATING. EVOLVING. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be

RESILIENT. LOYAL. FIERCE. I had a rocky, on and off-again relationship with the man I knew as my Dad my entire life. But, in 2007 we were tight, we had

UNDERSTANDING. FORGIVENESS. COMPASSION. I grew up in a home in Phoenix, Arizona where I was loved and doted on by my Dad—I was his princess. My three siblings had to