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    Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
    Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
    Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
    Audiobook7 hours

    Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA

    Written by Richard Hill

    Narrated by David Colacci

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    About this audiobook

    Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA was a Global Ebook Awards gold medal winner and a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist. It is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of how he pieced together the long-kept secret of his own origins. This highly suspenseful book is a compelling saga of personal detective work that will appeal to anyone who loves a good mystery.

    But this isn't fiction. It's an engrossing account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes listeners on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 28, 2017
    ISBN9781515988519
    Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
    Author

    Richard Hill

    Richard Hill, M.A., M.Ed., M.B.M.Sc., D.P.C., is acknowledged internationally as an expert in human dynamics, communication, the brain, and the mind. He is an international lecturer and keynote speaker on the topics of neuroscience and psychosocial genomics, has developed special training courses for suicide prevention, and is the originator of the Curiosity Approach. As well as giving lectures to the psychological profession in Australia and the rest of the world, Richard has a strong ongoing engagement with the coaching and business community.Ernest L. Rossi, Ph.D., holds a diploma in clinical psychology and is the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards for outstanding contributions to the field of psychotherapy. He is a Jungian analyst, the science editor of Psychological Perspectives, and the author, co-author, or editor of more than 50 professional books and more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the areas of neuroscience, psychotherapy, dreams, and therapeutic hypnosis, many of which have been translated into a dozen languages. Ernest is internationally recognized as a polymath, a gifted psychotherapist, and a teacher of innovative approaches to facilitating the creative process.

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    • 5/5
      Fascinating unraveled of a real life mystery. Recommended for anyone interested in genealogy.
    • 5/5
      When Richard was visiting his doctor prior to leaving for college, his doctor asked him, "How do you feel about being adopted?" This came as a complete surprise; Richard had no idea that he was adopted. Over the course of the next thirty-one years, in between "life" commitments, he worked to identify his biological identity. He was not a genealogist, but before his discovery journey was over, he learned many of the strategies used by genealogist. However, his biggest breakthroughs came through the advancements in DNA testing. Throughout the process, he was fortunate to connect with some volunteers who specialized in assisting adoptees. Finding Family is a good mystery, as well as a story of family and love; it contains many unexpected twists and turns. Even though this book covers more than three decades, it is a page turner; a must read for adoptees and for anyone interested in genetic genealogy.
    • 4/5
      Very interesting story of a man's search for his biological family that started before the internet and DNA matching. Richard Hill shows shows the struggle of sifting through secrets for adoptees and the great improvements to genealogy searching.
    • 5/5
      I found the book to be quite rewarding as it challenged my mind in how I think about my own genealogy research and DNA applications.
    • 4/5
      Finding Family was an engaging read with the best possible outcome for the author. Mr Hill's decency and thoughtfulness rang through this book as he made the decision to search for his biological family. I appreciated how thoroughly he outlined the process and how he never whitewashed how complicated and fraught it can be. He took on many poignant issues as he searched for his birth mother and father, especially around the sexual lives of his birth parents and its implications for the next generations. One point that I disagree with Mr. Hill is about his belief in the importance of not hurting family members in the search process. While a laudable goal I think, at times a family member might feel hurt during a search and it may not be helped. For example, there are adoptive parents who do feel hurt that their child wants to look for a parent and while respecting their feelings and being as reassuring as possible, a person who is adopted might need to do it anyway and this is OK. Other than that, this was a heartwarming, well-written story and I am thrilled for the author that he found what he needed in his journey. One other thought is that Mr Hill rated his own book on another site and I think it is best to trust the readers of your book to do that, Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to review this book for an honest opinion.
    • 4/5
      Richard Hill relates the story of his search for his birth parents and half-siblings over about a quarter of a century. It was an on and off search that shows how persistence pays off. His story also shows the advances in genetic genealogy during the course of his story. This is a book that adoptees who are interested in DNA testing need to read. While not everyone will be as successful in identifying their birth parents as Hill was, it does provide some encouragement for those who are still plugging away. I was a bit disappointed that there were not more photos and illustrations to accompany his narrative. Although I know what a chromosome browser looks like, many of Hill's potential readers do not and would benefit from an illustration, even if it does not show his actual family's genes due to privacy concerns of his half-siblings and cousins. While Hill is a good writer, the self-published narrative could have used some additional editing.