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Not every adoption reunion ends in joy. Samuel’s journey reveals the emotional complexity behind closed doors, missed connections, and the quiet courage to keep searching.

Poetry as Emotional Heirlooms: How Tennyson’s ‘Crossing the Bar’ Became Our Family’s Farewell

What happens when DNA evidence reveals that your ancestors weren’t quite who the records claimed? In this post, I explore the fallout from exposing long-hidden truths—and why genealogy is, at its core, a record of human relationships, messy or not.

Family stories are powerful—but they don’t always match the historical record. In this post, I explore how genealogists balance memory and documented proof, and why both have a place in family history.