Ann's Story

The History of You

‘As an adopted person with no family history what so ever, I felt I should try again to find out where I was from.'

These are the words of Ann, born in Dublin the 1950s. She has never known her birth parents. Like many other babies at the time born to single parents, she was adopted shortly after birth and her birth certificate gives her adoptive parents only.

Now, armed with her AncestryDNA results and Emilie’s help at the History OfYou, she was ready to find answers.

Ann now has many many many ancestors. Here are a few highlights:

She knows about her relatives Mary and Nora. The sisters moved from their farming village in rural Limerick, travelled to Connecticut in the 1890s and settled with their new American husbands in New Haven, but still only living a few doors away from each other their whole lives.

Ann also knows her Glaswegian paternal roots. Iron foundry and mill workers experiencing the daily heat at the very centre of the industrial revolution in Scotland. Their descendants, Ann's cousins, have been able to tell her stories about the ancestors they share.

Not only does she know her ancestors. Tracing of her family tree located that her biological mother went on to have four sons, Ann’s half brothers. The family reunion of 2022 saw them all join together to celebrate.

She says:

'Emilie's discoveries has been nothing short of amazing, I have a history and a bigger family now!'

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