Adriana Turk, from Australia, spent her entire life believing her extended family had perished in the Holocaust. However, a ...

When Adriana's brother died, she turned to DNA testing to find out about her family's past. Then something remarkable ...

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Adriana Turk anticipated finding only pieces of her uneasy past after her brother’s death, but was stunned by the discovery ...

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Recently, my dad discovered a family secret: In the 1960s, one of his first cousins, now deceased, fathered a previously unknown child with a woman who placed the baby for adoption. The records were ...

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...