A B.C. woman spoke with CTV News about how she came across a life-changing discovery in her family, and what pushed her to want to learn more.
Jody Paterson, left, being held by her father when she was a toddler. Jody would learn through DNA testing that the man was not her biological father. Improvements in DNA testing and the growing interest in learning about your family tree have created a new industry in the 21st century: do-it-yourself genealogy.US$5.4-billion enterprise
She decided to pay for the"premium package" through Ancestry, which provides advanced features beyond DNA testing, such as birth and death certificates, as well as newspaper articles, that can help provide context for who your family members were and what they might have accomplished. "The hunt for information is just plain cool," Paterson said."I have all the hunting instincts of a journalist. I really love finding the stories of people who were your family, the circumstances of their life."After receiving her DNA test results through Ancestry in November 2023, a few of the revelations surprised her, the first being that she was Irish on her father's side — not Scottish.
"But my dad and I were really close," she continued."He loved me unconditionally and we had a really solid foundation."But any consternation was quickly replaced with excitement, as Paterson saw the news as an opportunity to learn more about where she came from and the people who were in her biological father's life.
"For anyone from over 100 years ago, there really is no privacy anymore. You might live with a mental illness and find out that a distant relative was locked away in an institution 75 years ago," she said. The Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society is renting a house to help care for children and teens with complex mental health issues who have been surrendered by their parents.Just before 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, police responded to a business in the 3200 block of Sandwich St. near Mill Street, where a person concealed several items and tried to leave the store.A central Quebec health authority has confirmed that a woman gave birth outside a hospital in Drummondville, Que.
Lolling with bright blue yoga mats, sleeping masks and travel pillows, hundreds of Mexicans laid sprawled out on the ground at the base of the city’s iconic Monument to the Revolution to take a nap. Dubbed the "mass siesta," the event was in commemoration of World Sleep Day.
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