DNA found my grandmother's birth family within minutes of me loading my results! So it solved that mystery rather quickly!
I do have matches that must be related to my illegitimate great-grandmother's birth father, but they are all rather remote, looking at their trees, I think I have found one couple that he must be related to in some way, but I cannot get closer. Maybe one day!
Not mine, but someone who I have been working with over many years to try and sort out her big family mystery, I finally worked out what I thought was her family tree, and with access to her DNA results, found a distant match with a good family tree, that finally proved it!
My experience has been useful, and I live in hope of finding something else exciting, but to be honest, useful close matches are getting few and far between.
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were
and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells
(Marcel Proust)
Christine
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