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Stacey Dooley helps people find answers to life-changing questions using the power of DNA.

Stacey Dooley helps people find answers to life-changing questions through the power of a DNA test.

Over 26 million of us have taken a DNA test in the past decade. This growing popularity of genetic testing has created worldwide databases that allow us to ask questions previously impossible to answer about our families, ancestry and health.

Stacey Dooley is meeting people across the UK who want to unlock mysteries hidden within their genetic code. Working with one of the UK’s leading geneticists, Professor Turi King, as well as genealogists, social workers and doctors, she uses the very latest DNA technology to reveal lost heritage, track down missing relatives and detect debilitating diseases before it is too late.

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DNA Family Secrets: Series 2: Episode 2

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Was Jackie's father actually a Nazi? And was Maureen’s dad an African-American GI?

Seventy-nine-year-old Jackie grew up in a Nazi concentration camp and wonders if any family escaped the Holocaust. Maureen wants to know if her father was actually an African-American GI.

Liverpool-born Maureen is wondering if her father was an African-American GI who fell in love with her mother during the Second World War - which could mean she has family in the US. She’s also curious why her three sons are so musically talented and if the secret may lie in her DNA.

Seventy-nine-year-old Jackie grew up in a Nazi concentration camp as a Jewish orphan and wants to know why he survived. Was his dad actually a Nazi? And did any of his birth family escape the Holocaust?

DNA Family Secrets: Series 2

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Stacey Dooley helps people unlock mysteries hidden in their DNA.



Stacey Dooley helps people unlock mysteries hidden in their DNA – from discovering lost ancestry and tracking down missing relatives to detecting diseases before it’s too late.

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