Exploring a new all relatives family tree

Our reviews in the series of articles are intended to follow similar formats, for which we’ve created a standard set of functional questions that we’ll aim to respond to, as far as possible, for each

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Not that long ago, family secrets had every chance of staying that way – until the boom in DNA testing. It was 25 years ago that the first genetic genealogy tests were offered to the public. Since the