The Recovering Academic

The Recovering Academic

Searching for roots during a major life change

How Ancestry DNA and old-fashioned genealogy led me to Maria Obrdlíková

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Joshua Doležal
Jun 21, 2022
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One of my Christmas presents last year was an Ancestry DNA test. My mother-in-law could not have known how relevant that gift would be to my transition away from acad…

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