A Detective Story Across Continents: Finding a 95-Year-Old Adoptee’s Birth Father
Sun, Feb 21
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Join us for a detective story using DNA and genealogy research to solve a 95 year mystery.
Time & Location
Feb 21, 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST
Zoom -need help to join, text 612-200-4759
About The Event
MNJGS hosts this amazing detective story. Since childhood, Bob Jagger has always wished to know about his biological parents. Despite a happy childhood in his adoptive family and having lived a full life, the question has always remained – ‘Who were my biological parents?” He wanted to have a history for his daughter and future generations. Now in his 90’s, he took a DNA test and discovered he is 50% Jewish. Through a process of international collaboration, extensive genealogical detective work, DNA analysis and some good luck, his birth father was identified, and Bob was united with his half-sister.
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