Half-Sisters United After Both Have DNA Testing

The following teaser is from an article posted October 9, 2018 at the CBC website.

Two half-sisters got more than they bargained for when they signed up for an online genealogy test two years apart — they discovered each other.

Stacey Kennedy, 45, lives in Ottawa, and Kim McFarlane, also 45, lives in Kingston, Ont.

Kennedy thought she knew everyone in her family: her mother, father and the brother she grew up with. But still, an advertisement for the genealogy website AncestryDNA caught her eye, and in 2016 she signed up for a testing kit.

Read the full article.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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