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Family Drama – DNA – Postcards!

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January 17, 2022

Scientists Settled a Century-Old Family Drama Using DNA From Postcards According to WIRED magazine – Swiss forensic geneticists analyzed DNA recovered from postage stamps dating back to World War I and solved a century-old paternity puzzle. Check it out: https://www.wired.com/story/dna-artifact-testing/

The Lost Postcard Bandit

So, while sorting through my vast collection of postcards one day, I started noticing that there were quite a few cards that had correspondence on the message side, notes written about the front, or other tidbits of information written on them….but they had never been mailed out to anyone. WHAT A SHAME!! It’s like it… Read More ›

Postcrossing

So, the love of Postcards has been in my family for many many generations now. But the true love of collecting them came from my Mom. She was so passionate about it, so organized, has so many of them; it is quite amazing. Recently, my brother and I started going through her collection with her,… Read More ›