![]() ![]() She was proud of all his family and his heritage. She had never been close to her mother, and identified with her father. What I can mention is Dani Shapiro’s feelings of loss of identity. The research and search are worth reading for yourself. From one sentence her mother once said, and a “first cousin” who showed up on Ancestry, Michael figured out the story, connecting Dani’s story with her biological father. Dani Shapiro felt as if she had lost her identity.ĭani Shapiro is a writer, and her husband is a journalist. All the Orthodox Jewish relatives she could name for five generations back were not her relatives. ![]() Her half-sister wasn’t related to her at all. Then, she forgot about it until the results came back. She agreed, and months later, they finally got around to spitting in the tube. Dani’s husband, Michael, said he was going to take one of those DNA analysis tests. I’ve seen Shapiro on television talking about her book and the results of her DNA analysis. I’m not spoiling the story by writing about it. She writes of it in Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. Dani Shapiro took it all lightly, but she was traumatized by the results. Think carefully before you spit into that test tube for or any of the other genealogy sites. ![]()
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