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Mikal\u2019s FamilyTreeDNA Story: The Sixth Daughter<\/h2>\n

Mikal was searching for her heritage. Her mother was adopted and wasn\u2019t interested in finding her birth parents or really knowing her ethnic background. But little did she know, her search wouldn\u2019t lead to her mother\u2019s family. Instead, she would uncover something completely unexpected\u2026on her father\u2019s side.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”74879″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”45″ lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”990263″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”531314″]When Mikal uploaded her Autosomal DNA<\/a> results from another other company into the FamilyTreeDNA database, she was shocked to get a match almost immediately. But the match didn\u2019t make any sense to her. She had a close match, a half-sister, all the way across the world, in Vietnam. Then it hit her.<\/p>\n

Tanti: The House Girl<\/h2>\n

Her father, Jim, was deployed to Vietnam when he was only 19 years old. When she told him what her results had revealed, he immediately understood the truth. He ran to his closet and took out his old photo albums where he had kept photos from his time in Vietnam. His time with Tanti, the base\u2019s \u201chouse girl.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”74880″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”45″ lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”878746″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”193997″]He told Mikal and his wife about Tanti, and how one night spent on the base turned romantic. A few weeks later, he was sent back to America. He never had any inkling that she was pregnant. No one ever guessed that Mikal\u2019s FamilyTreeDNA Story would include a new sister. But Jim had raised five daughters already, and now, he had a sixth. He decided he had to go to Vietnam and get her back, and try to make up for the almost five decades he\u2019d missed.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”74881″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”45″ lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”540919″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”166373″]After months of speaking online, Linh\u2019s visa was approved and she was allowed to join her new family in America. Linh is now living with her long-lost father and his wife, and she and her family have been embraced and welcomed with open arms.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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