![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That institute, Shapiro’s research-savvy husband (also a writer) later discovers, was the Farris Institute for Parenthood in Philadelphia, a place intended to “treat” married women having trouble conceiving. SEE PHOTOSBest books of 2018: 'Lake Success' and more I spoke fluent Hebrew until I was in high school.” She was especially proud to be part of her father’s lineage, an esteemed Orthodox clan, “conscious of its own legacy.” Shapiro, 54 at the time, had little reason to doubt her background, she writes in her new memoir “Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love.” “I had been raised Orthodox. One evening after dinner, author Dani Shapiro, who has written about her family and marriage in four memoirs (and five sometimes autobiographical novels), spit into a tube her husband had purchased. While it sounds warm and fuzzy, the jagged edge of DNA testing has been the unearthing of long-buried family secrets - usually along the lines of “wow, my dad is not my real dad.” In genealogy, this is called an “npe,” or nonpaternity event. The process is designed to illuminate your ethnic background, as well as connect you with other DNA matches - ostensibly, close and extended family. Each instructs its user to spit into a vial, send that vial off to lab for testing and await your genealogical results. Late last year, scores of people received DNA testing kits as holiday gifts sold 1.5 million of them between Black Friday and Cyber Monday alone. ![]()
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