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Jane Hammons's avatar

With dread I stopped hair color treatments and discovered I was not “going gray” in the monotone way suggested by that phrase: I was growing gloriously silver, brilliantly white, sporting an Emmy Lou Harris-like abundance of color!

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Georgia Kreiger's avatar

When I decided to have my DNA analyzed by Ancestry.com, I was hoping to learn about my maternal great-grandfather. According to our family lore, he had been “adopted” (though, not legally) by a childless couple in the mid-1800s and was raised as their son. His last name was different from theirs, however. I wanted to see if I could learn anything about his birth parents. What I learned from the DNA analysis, surprisingly, had more to do with my father’s side of the family.

When I received the Ancestry report and opened the section on DNA matches, I saw that the first person listed had a name I didn’t recognize and that Ancestry had determined that this person was my half-sister. Half-sister? That couldn’t be right. I was an only child. I had never had any siblings. Right? At first, I dismissed this revelation as a mistake. But then I looked deeper into the match, and I saw that this woman and I were related through my father’s side of the family. The information suggested that she and I had the same father. Uh oh.

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