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    <title>DNA Discoveries - Episodes Tagged with “Autosomal Tests”</title>
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    <description>Did you do your DNA test to find out if you’re Irish? If you are like the host, Edward Looney, that’s why he spit in a tube and sent it off to the lab.  He ended up finding family he never knew he had. This is a podcast about people who discovered family– parents, brothers, cousins.  Listen for heart warming and tear jerking stories about DNA Discoveries that have changed lives.  
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  <itunes:subtitle>Today's episode is a joint episode with Beth and her biological dad.  She shares her experience and disappointment in finding her birth mother but the great joy in finding her biological father after a few years of searching.  Her dad shares how he reacted to and received the news that he had another child he didn't know about.  </itunes:subtitle>
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Share your DNA story by email dnadiscoveriespodcast@gmail.com or by visiting dnadiscoveries.fireside.fm (dnadiscoveries.fireside.fm) 
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<p>Share your DNA story by email <a href="mailto:dnadiscoveriespodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">dnadiscoveriespodcast@gmail.com</a> or by visiting [dnadiscoveries.fireside.fm](dnadiscoveries.fireside.fm)</p>]]>
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<p>Share your DNA story by email <a href="mailto:dnadiscoveriespodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">dnadiscoveriespodcast@gmail.com</a> or by visiting [dnadiscoveries.fireside.fm](dnadiscoveries.fireside.fm)</p>]]>
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