The Mystery Man and the DNA Test
Well, well, well. That famous genealogy serendipity has struck again.
As I pondered taking an Ancestry DNA test seeking a match to the family of the Irish widower I suspect to be my great-grandfather, I received an e-mail from a sibling.
Guess who just took a DNA test at Ancestry? Guess who has a close DNA match to the great-grandsons of the Irish widower?
I think we have found the ancestor whose identity remained hidden for 125 years. An ancestor from whom my sibling and I each receive 12.5% of our DNA.
I can finally begin to fill in that huge empty space on my family tree. I have a lot of research to do.