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freshest streaming service. And the And then. Imagine for a moment that you've been alive for over 80 years and never been part of a family.

You have no parents, real or adopted, no brothers or sisters, no cousins, nobody.

You have only your name and no amount of research helps all those Christmases, holidays, vacations, family trips, graduations and milestones, never experienced.

Your life has always been a question with no answers.

And then, one magical day, thanks to a simple DNA match, you find

you have a cousin, and that cousin has the key to all the answers you've been seeking. Modern

science, specifically genealogy, is giving us answers to

questions about our past and helping to provide links to ancestry that wouldn't have been

considered possible just a few years ago.

Welcome to another episode of 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries.

This one titled, It's In The Genes,

An 80-year-old Mystery Solved. Is from our Mystery Series. in the

80-year-old mystery solved is from our mystery series and tells the story of Patrick P.J. Holland, who

through a very fortunate quirk of fate helped by modern science,

finally found his family.

We'll get to PJ's story in a minute, but first, some basics to bring you up to speed on genetics and DNA.

We like to think of ourselves as architects of our own will.

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