Have you had your DNA tested to determine your ancestry?

[Hekate]

93. Good lord, my husband and I knew this woman decades ago thru all of us having worked at UC...

I have to say I really don't understand the level of angst she felt at her discovery, or the obsessive need to track down every detail for years.. It had a happy ending and all that, but I did a whole lot of eye-rolling to get that far. Whatever, Alice. I'm an Irish-American mutt myself, but at least I know I'm a mutt and would just think any added info was kind of interesting.

My dad and his siblings also spent time in an orphanage in the early part of the last century, but the family resemblance is so striking there could be no mistaking his relationship to everybody else.

My daughter looks like me and my side of the family (i.e. like my father). My son doesn't look like me or his bio-dad. He looks most like his dad's mother's brother, who I only met a few times. Since his dad never took the kids to meet that side of the family, unbeknownst to me my son actually felt sensitive about his different looks. When the kids were about 13 and 15 I finally decided to take a long trip just so they could meet their by then pretty old great aunt and great uncle, whom I remembered fondly. Voila -- my son met the man he looks like. It made a difference to him after all.