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One thing that may be confusng some folks is the 23andMe family tree, the starter they give you has the genders reversed.
Where you expect a male you get a female.
Instead of:
MF
MF-MF
MF-MF|MF-MF
It is:
FM
FM-FM
FM-FM|FM-FM
No, scroll up to my post. There is no rhyme or reason as to which side the DNA line will be. It is not typical male on left with female on right and it is not female on left with male on right. It seems to depend on how who you enter fits in the actual space on the tree.
My birth mother did not feed info into an app; this was an old-fashioned intake back in the late 60s. Everything on the heritage report (a summary of the birth mother's info, minus names) checked out on the birth father's side, so I had no reason to doubt that her information was incorrect.
As it turns out, my research is correct. I mailed her a letter Monday, and she emailed me today. The search is over; now, the hard part begins.
To me, the "hard part" was the searching and making contact, worrying that she might not want to acknowledge me. But I think you are wise in understanding you'll have more work cut out for you now that you've crossed that high threshold into her life. At least her prompt email response sounds like it was a positive step on her part.
My birth mother did not feed info into an app; this was an old-fashioned intake back in the late 60s. Everything on the heritage report (a summary of the birth mother's info, minus names) checked out on the birth father's side, so I had no reason to doubt that her information was incorrect.
As it turns out, my research is correct. I mailed her a letter Monday, and she emailed me today. The search is over; now, the hard part begins.
Congrats. I found my brother in 2004 on a reunion site. He lived 10 miles from us, used to drive by my work, knew who I was.
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