DNA
testing can reveal surprises. Some we might
be prepared for and some maybe not.
The
story of Alice Collins Piebuch as told in the piece She thought she was
Irish – until a DNA test opened a 100-year-old mystery, Washington Post, 27 July 2017, reminds us that DNA results can
challenge us to interpret them.
And,
as summarized by Angie Bush (our NGS DNA expert), “it's unwise to dismiss
ethnicity results completely. There can be situations where those results are
highly informative.”
On the
Facebook page of Angie Bush, The Legal Genealogist, Judy G. Russell, shared
some posts created in 2015 telling the stories from Alice’s viewpoint and from
Jess’ viewpoint.
·
Switched
at Birth: Unraveling a Century-Old Mystery with DNA (Your Genetic Genealogist,
27 February 2016), http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2015/02/switched-at-birth-unravelling-century_27.html
·
And
Who Would’ve Thought … It Figures (A Strange Kind of Pilgrimage, 22 Jan 2015), https://strangepilgrimage.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/and-who-wouldve-thought-it-figures/
DNA
can be a wonderful tool. And, no
guarantee though that it won’t come with some surprises.
.
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