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By Karen Brown – The New York Times 05/11/2019 \”… Three weeks after we sent in my father’s cheek swab, the results came back. There was no genetic match; Sandy and Rex did not appear on each other’s profiles. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/dna-tests-testing.html info

By Fran Maye – Daily Local News 06/05/2019 \”… It wasn’t until age 15 that Kennedy found out he was adopted. His mother and father who were raising them went through a divorce, and told him he was adopted. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.dailylocal.com/news/local/after-years-local-man-reunited-with-his-birth-mother-following/article_9e31ca42-8792-11e9-9c27-6b9d82d70302.html info

By Catherine Minolli – Tri-City Times Online 06/05/2019 \”… \”She told me the man who was my father, who I carried his name, was not my real father,\” Chris recalls. \”She said \’I\’m not sure who your father is.\’\” …\” Read the entire article: http://www.tricitytimes-online.com/Articles-News-i-2019-06-05-227686.112113-DNA-discovery.html   info

By Jacqueline Mroz – The New York Times 06/03/2019 \”… As genetic testing becomes more widespread, parents are finding that sperm used in artificial insemination did not come from the donors they chose. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/health/sperm-banks-fertility-artificial-insemination.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_190604 info

By Abe Hawken – The Sun 05/08/2019 \”… The 23-year-old man, from Hull, said he has been left financially crippled after forking up cash for a child he’s never met. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9029619/dad-forced-to-pay-son-didnt-know-existed/ info

By Grady Trimble – WTSP 05/11/2019 \”… Jerry Seltzer used an AncestryDNA test to try to find his biological parents. He found them, but he also discovered something frightening about himself. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/family/an-online-dna-test-might-have-saved-this-mans-life/67-fda5d155-0e3b-4901-95b6-36b5b594ae05 info

By Erin Allday – San Francisco Chronicle 05/17/2019 \”… His first letter to the family, sent to the oldest sibling, arrived on Aug. 22, 2018 — two days after their father had died, he learned later. None of them had ever heard of another sibling, and some didn’t respond well to the letter. …\” Read

By Milan Schreuer – The New York Times 05/21/2019 \”… After refusing for months, King Albert II will soon give a DNA sample, his lawyer said this week, in a lawsuit brought by a woman who says she is his daughter, neglected and kept secret for decades. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/world/europe/belgium-king-albert-dna-test.html info

By Stuff 05/21/2019 \”… Only at age 15, when Gantois was mourning the death of his mother, taken by tuberculosis at age 37, did he get the truth. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/112870394/sons-piece-together-lost-wwii-love-story-after-dna-test info

By The CS Monitor 05/07/2019 \”… When you submit your DNA to a personal genomics company like Ancestry or 23andme, you’re not just uncovering secrets about yourself, but potentially about other people. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2019/0506/Whom-does-your-DNA-belong-to-Hint-it-s-not-just-you info