[Magdalen] DNA story

[Lynn Ronkainen]

The story was an interesting window on early 20th century American mores - orphanages, hospitals etc in addition to a family story of that time which I doubt is unique or infrequent. 
Lynn 

On Jan 2, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com> wrote:

Oh, yes, it's here already. 23&me will show you those of their customers whom you share DNA with, and, of course, the higher the percentage the closer the relationship. I did that and quickly found a woman who, it said, was my first cousin. After correspondence it turned out she was the daughter of my first cousin, Betty Lynn, with whom I hadn't been in touch with (nor her two sisters) in many years.

So indeed you can find close (and not-so-close) relatives right now via DNA right now.

And, BTW, maybe you should look up the movie "Starbuck" - a comedy about a sperm donor in Montreal. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1756750/

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- From: cantor03--- via Magdalen
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] DNA story

Have the DNA people gotten to the point (maybe never will?) that they can connect with unknown
relatives through DNA?

I'm particularly interested in connecting with the couple (several?) offspring that I suspect I
have secondary to semen donation when I was in UW-Medical School.  The ObGyn
Department at UW that operated this insemination service is totally a dead end for this
information as they claim they kept no records.  Odd.


David Strang









In a message dated 1/2/2018 1:38:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:


There are genealogical clubs and societies