Michelle Hughes has brown, curly hair that’s fine in texture. Depending on the season, her skin color ranges from a light olive brown to a creamier hue. When she meets someone new, that person often finds a way to ask: “What are you?” (which sounds rude, right?) or “Where are you from?” (which is sort [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
DNA Reunited – Brother from another mother
Steven Swinford assumed he was British until a website’s DNA test revealed 43 far-flung relatives. My family had always presumed that we were solidly British. My mother, our resident genealogist, has painstakingly traced five generations on her side back to Leeds and West Yorkshire, while my father’s clan hails from Bethnal Green in east London. [...]