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Rod Anderson spent 81 years not knowing his father till a DNA match connected him with his half-sister

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After 81 years of searching for answers about his father, Rod Anderson finally uncovered his family's history thanks to a DNA test. His father, Charles Blakney, served in the…

For 81 years, Rod Anderson had one question that he could never quit find an answer to: who was his father? Born in Farnham, England, in 1945, Anderson grew up with his British mother, Yvonne, without knowing much about the man whose DNA he shared. He spent nearly 50 years trying to identify him, even taking a DNA test to investigate someone he suspected could be his biological father. The results, however, ruled that person out.Little did he know that thousands of miles away, a Canadian family was trying to solve the same mystery.

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