Every family has a mystery: Unraveling the question marks at RootsTech

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Some of those mysteries — why a grandfather disappeared one day, why a baby was put up for adoption six decades ago, why a woman might hide part of her identity all her adult life — can never be solved.

But thanks to advancing technology and a massive industry dedicated to learning about our genealogy, some questions, like our direct lineage, now have answers. As my family learned recently, though, some of those answers present new, more complicated mysteries.

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