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How a shipwreck, a DNA test and Facebook solved a family puzzle
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A DNA test, a shipwreck reference, and a Facebook connection helped reunite relatives separated by more than 1,000 miles. Yvette Holly, from Hull, said that two years ago a DNA test told her she was half Icelandic—information she didn’t previously have because she didn’t know who her father was. Using a genealogy site, she searched for names of people she believed were cousins and found a man her age, Barour Jon Grimsson, known as Bari. His Facebook profile showed a mutual friend, Alec Gill, a historian of Hull’s fishing industry, leading to the crucial link to a stranded ship called Pamela off Iceland.
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