[Magdalen] DNA story

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

And, when you consider the way they did things back in the day, it's
amazing there were not more of these mix-ups.  The element of grace I see
in this is that the lady did get her answers, but in a way that apred her
father, who had nothing but his ethnic identity to call his own.
Coincidence? Hah.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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> On Jan 2, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> So indeed you can find close (and not-so-close) relatives right now via
> DNA right now.
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> And, BTW, maybe you should look up the movie "Starbuck" - a comedy about a
> sperm donor in Montreal. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1756750/
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> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
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> -----Original Message----- From: cantor03--- via Magdalen
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2018 10:43 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Cc: cantor03 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] DNA story
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> Have the DNA people gotten to the point (maybe never will?) that they can
> connect with unknown
> relatives through DNA?
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> 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.
>
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> David Strang
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> In a message dated 1/2/2018 1:38:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
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> There are genealogical clubs and societies
>