Yasheka believes she has a responsibility to document and share her family's history.

“I'm the only one that's that's responsible for making sure that my family's story get told because if I don't tell my family story, who going to tell it, right?”

Discovering deep and widespread family roots provides a sense of being grounded and centered.

“and I think part of me feeling more grounded today is discovering that my roots are so deep and so widespread.”

The speaker finds researching family history to be a compelling and rewarding activity.

“look understanding where you come from it is an amazing journey”

DeLand McCullough views the discovery of his biological father as a profound blessing that completed his life circle.

“It was a completing of a circle for me, you know. I mean, because, you know, you you I mean, like any of us, you wonder where did this come from? Where did my ability to this? Where did my work ethic? Where did where did these things come from, you know? And it just was like a ghost out there.”

He asserts that knowing one's family history and stories is the primary predictor of resilience in children.

“So, there's an Emory psychology study from 2001 that proved that the number one predictor of resilience in children is how much they know about their families' stories.”

Genetic testing services are largely inaccurate and provide useless, non-predictive information to users.

“this thing sucks sucks it's just like random”

He believes finding one's genealogy is often a disappointing endeavor that rarely produces positive findings.

“any any dirt come up um well i had uh there was uh my dad's name was michael gaffigan i have a son named michael gaffigan and there was somebody who murdered someone who was named michael you never it's never you never find anything good in these things i don't know why anybody does it”