02:00pm - 04:00pm  DNA Leads an Adopted Daughter to her Birth Mother: Kelly's Story

Speakers: Kelly Moore, Karen Franklin Kelly Moore was raised in Albany, New York. A Catholic child, she was told at an early age that she was adopted. In her mid-twenties, she started the search for her birth parents. A simple FamilyTreeDNA test yielded surprising results – she had many Jewish matches, and one extremely close match to Jon Stedman. Kelly got in touch with Karen Franklin, the contact on FamilyTreeDNA. Jon had died five years earlier, but Karen had uploaded the DNA. Karen was able to provide Jon’s research tracing their German Jewish family history back to mid 18th century. In ...