Although consumer-based DNA testing has been around since about 2012, and although I’m often an early-adopter of new technology, I hadn’t considered that it might be helpful to me. I couldn’t get DNA from my parents because they were both already gone, so what good would it do me to take a test? Then I read an article about how DNA testing was helping adoptees find their birth parents, even if they were deceased, by connecting them to a family tree, and realized that I didn’t need my parents’ DNA. I could get some answers if I took a test and could convince my brother to take one too.
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