A Broken Tree by Stephen F. Anderson

Author:Stephen F. Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Adding Clarity to the Picture

This whole adventure of discovering our family’s true identity started in late 2007. It began with a few stories and the thought that we wanted to find out who we really are, as a family. The confession by my mother that Neil was not Mark’s son and the as yet unproven stories that Carlee and Holly also may not have been his daughters provided just enough information to convince me that there could very well be more to the story than any of us might have been aware of.

When we first started, the only clue we had that any of us may not have been fathered by Mark Anderson was with Neil, at the time of his accident. The differences in their blood types raised the question of Neil’s paternity with my parents, which resulted in my mother admitting to my dad the real story. We feel that there are enough details that corroborate Mom’s story to feel reasonably confident that he is not Mark’s son. Until Neil allows us to test his DNA, we will not have indisputable evidence; only genetic testing will provide that. For Carlee and Holly, we were going only on what our mother had told us, and we knew from experience that we could never consider Mom’s testimony an unquestionable fact.

By May of 2016, we had done enough DNA testing to provide us with many valuable facts and some amazing stories. The puzzle was coming together to show us a picture we had no idea existed when we’d first started investigating our family’s history. Still, there were more questions we needed answers to. I wasn’t quite sure how we were going to move forward with this investigation, but with each DNA test we conducted, new windows of opportunity opened up, showing us how we might be able to find those answers that had been eluding us for so long.

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