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Black-Market Adoptions to Broadway Stars (with Lisa Elzey) | Episode 132
What if the secret to breaking through your own genealogy brick walls is stepping away from your family tree entirely? In this episode, my dear friend, colleague, and podcast producer Lisa Elzey joins me to explore how researching strangers' family trees—from solving the dark mysteries around the 1950s Georgia "Hicks babies" black-market adoptions to uncovering the immigrant roots of the cast of the Broadway show Anastasia—completely transformed the way we do family history and genetic genealogy. By stepping outside our own pedigree charts, we learned how to drop research bias, untangle messy…
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