Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer. In the vein of a classic mystery, Hill gathers the seemingly scant evidence surrounding the circumstances of his birth. As his resolve shores up, the author also avails of new friends, genealogists, the Internet, and the latest DNA tests in the new field of genetic genealogy. As he closes in on the truth of his ancestry, he is able to construct a living, breathing portrait of the young woman who was faced with the decision to forsake her rights to her child, and ultimately the man whose identity had remained hidden for decades. Finding Family offers guidance, insight, and motivation for anyone engaged in a similar mission, from ways to obtain information to the many networks that can facilitate adoption searches. The book includes a detailed guide to DNA and genetic genealogy and how they can produce irrefutable results in determining genetic connections and help adoptees bypass sealed records and similar stumbling blocks.

Excerpt from Genealogy of the Lyman Family, in Great Britain and America: The Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lyman, From High Ongar in England, 1631 Long after we of the present, like former generations, shall have passed through life to our silent graves, some few may rise up, age after age, to bless the hearts and hands that formed and executed the purpose to collect the per ishable materials, just passing into irrecoverable oblivion, of which the work of the genealogist is composed. The future historian may gather thence some shreds for the web he may then be weaving, and the historical painter may catch some lingering lineaments of the stern old Puritans for his group, on the canvas of other days, of those represen tative men who have left the grand, effaceless imprint of their character on succeeding generations. Whatever may be the result, the consciousness remains of having labored long and faithfully to perpetuate the memory of the worthy ancestry of a great, far-spreadin g family who have achieved an honorable position among many other families descended from Puritan ancestors in New England. Reposing in this quiet consciousness this work is commended to the attention of all of this family who would learn something of their ancestral history or cherish the memory of their honored ancestors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.