“A family member, by marriage, just found her birth mom year before last via DNA”
My grandmother who was born in 1889, was adopted. Last year I had my 96-year-old mother take an Ancestry DNA test. Within a matter of weeks, I was able to identify both of my grandmother’s biological parents based on several of my mother’s 2nd cousin matches.
A 139-year-old mystery was solved thru modern technology. The icing on the cake was that relatives of the two biological parents had posted their pictures on Ancestry and findagrave.com.
Very cool! :-)