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MOC 12 - Day 30 - Connecting With Technology

MOC 12 - Day 30 - Connecting With Technology
Annsofie, Feb 2, 2024
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Credits: Hear My Voice: 07 - Connecting | The Complete Digital Scrapbooking Collection by Rachel Jefferies & Lynn Grieveson

Journaling: Without today's technology, I doubt I ever got to see my brother. A few years ago I submitted my DNA to My Heritage with no thought that I would find anything strange. I have a large family with lots of cousins and children of the cousins that I have never met, so when Emma appeared as a match on the site I thought at first it was a child of a cousin. Then I started reading a little more carefully and realized that she had as much DNA in common with me as my niece and I have with each other. I got curious and sent Emma a message to see if she knew how we were related. She replied the next day but had no idea how we could be related. She promised to come back after she had spoken to her parents. A few days later she sent a message that she thought it might be that her grandfather and I were related. I gave Emma my email address and wrote that if her grandfather wanted to contact me, he was welcome to do so. A few days later I received an email from Hans-Ingvar and we were then able to confirm that he is my half-brother that my father got when he was 23 years old. I was so happy that he wanted to get in touch and a few weeks later Hans-Ingvar and I met for the first time. Imagine that we have lived in the same village for the past decade and didn't know about each other. How crazy is that?! I am so grateful for the new technology that makes it possible to both find new family members and also keep in touch with them in an easy way.
    • VinGirl
      Wow, such an incredible story about connection through technology! This is a lovely page to represent it, too.
      Feb 2, 2024
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    • LynnG
      What a wonderful take on the challenge and fascinating. I love these stories. When we did DNA tests, I took away my mother and her sister's grandfather! :-0 (Turned out their grandmother had had an affair and their Dad was actually the result of that).
      Feb 3, 2024
    • Annsofie
      @LynnG omg, that shows a whole other side of the wonders of technology! That could have been the case in my story too, since I didn’t know anything about Hans-Ingvars family situation. But in this case his mother and our father was young and it happened during the WW2. Somehow they couldn’t/wouldn’t continue together and split up. I’m so glad Hans-Ingvar got to know about who his dad was, he doesn’t remember meeting him and his mother didn’t tell him anything about him.
      Feb 3, 2024
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