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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Finding Your Roots: How To Trace Your Ancestry Through DNA Testing


This story originally appeared in the April 2019 issue of ESSENCE When Victoria Walker bought a DNA testing kit in December 2017, it was to join her family in finding out more about their ancestry. Growing up with a great-aunt who had been the family historian for decades, Walker, a Washington, D.C., attorney, already knew a few details about her mother’s side. She knew, for example, that her mother’s family hailed from Louisiana, but beyond that, the geography was sketchy. “I probably knew no

Read in ESSENCE: https://apple.news/AKFyzyGSXTrq7owSQQUD3ZQ