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Can Path Of Our Knowledge Be Traced To Our Ancestors?

Posted July 06, 2006 12:00 AM EDT

By Luanne Austin

Ball is the name engraved across the top of a large headstone in a cemetery I pass by often. It never meant anything to me until last week. Now the past haunts me. Not my own life’s past, but my antecedents whose DNA and God-knows-what-else I carry. I have many questions. Mom always told me, offering no evidence, our antecedents came over on the Mayflower. As it turns out, that family legend was not far from the truth. I recently contacted a long-lost...

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