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Dateline NBC

Father's Day

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a woman from Washington State takes a DNA test, hoping to learn more about her family history. A remarkable discovery would change her family forever – and send her father halfway around the world to confront a past he thought he left behind. Harry Smith reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 17, 2018.

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0:00.0

He calls me and I can hear him telling them that he found me.

0:04.5

I can hear her crying and then I start crying.

0:10.0

And it was just like, oh my gosh, she's just been waiting for us all these years.

0:16.6

She grew up in a sprawling, loving family, but couldn't help wondering about her roots.

0:25.9

What am I really?

0:26.9

I was wanting to know where my people came from.

0:29.7

So like millions of us do every year, she took a DNA test.

0:34.0

Her results jaw dropping.

0:36.2

Goosebumps, I'm getting them right now.

0:37.6

I'm like, oh my gosh.

0:39.3

A revelation with implications for the entire family.

0:43.2

My dad's like, what do you think?

0:44.7

When I started looking at all this proof, I started realizing, oh my gosh.

0:50.0

The discovery now taking them to the other side of the world.

0:54.3

And back in time.

0:55.7

I don't think you expected to come down here and feel all these things.

0:59.5

So I thought I was tougher than dad.

1:01.8

All to meet a perfect stranger with a story to tell.

1:05.3

She's my hero.

1:06.8

History may get righted.

1:08.1

A secret revealed.

1:09.6

A family transformed.

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