Like all new technologies, DNA testing has a good side, a bad side, and as author Margaret Atwood said, a stupid side you hadn’t considered eight years ago. 72-year-old Washington native Alice Collins Plebeach made a decision that would change her life forever. She sent samples of her saliva for a just-for-fun DNA test. Alice, a devout Irish-American Catholic, thought she had a good idea about what the DNA test results would say. However, when the results came back, Alice was shocked. She wasn’t who she thought she was. This revelation sent Alice and her siblings on a years-long journey to uncover the mystery surrounding their identities.
Questions about her family had preoccupied Alice for years. Her mother, named Alice, was into genealogy and kept an old family book with handwritten names, births, and deaths of their relatives. Read the full story here ▶
