DNA testing has enabled many to find unknown biological parents. The basic methodology is to build the trees of your close DNA matches to find where the families meet then build your research tree down and back up from there.

In this video, The Basics of Unknown Parentage Research Using DNA: Part 1, Kitty Munson Cooper walks us through the importance of DNA testing and shares a variety of resources to help us better understand DNA results.

Part 1:    • The Basics of Unknown Parentage Resea...  
Part 2:    • The Basics of Unknown Parentage Resea...  

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