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I am 67 and was adopted as a child. Last year I found my birth father after using a DNA test kit from Ancestry.co.uk, which was wonderful. It turns out he was also adopted and we think we have located ...

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In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.