revolution in human identification. the first step is to get dna tested. someone like paul needs to get tested at a consumer dna testing company and compare it against the millions of others in those data bases. so you say in the film people don t have necessarily a right to have a relationship with their biological family but they do have a birth right to the knowledge of their heritage. talk about that. why it is so important. alex hayley talked about that yearning, that need to know who we are and where we came from, our roots. i ve seen that with millions of people now with the advent of direct consumer dna testing and genetic geneology. i m not saying everybody cares about that but there are millions of people who yearn for answers about their self-identity questions, family mysteries, answers in violent crimes.
more letters. newspaper clippings. i m like, this isn t christmas. so i looked at one and it said search for kidnapped baby. another one, baby still missing. so i started reading it. and it said paul joseph fronczak kidnapped from michael reese hospital and i saw a picture of my mom and dad and they looked sad and heartbroken and distraught. i thought, wait. that s me. what happened? oh, my goodness. what a story. joining us now is a genetic genealogist who played a key role in helping paul fronczak untangle the mystery of his past. where do you begin with a mystery like that? well, genetic geneology is a
there are a lot of applications genetic geneology can help to find answers. and paul s story is an amazing example of that. back to paul s story, i don t want to give too much away because we want everybody to tune in and see the whole story but there is a bigger mystery. when he starts diving in to this, everything was a lie. is that right? right. with paul, he is incredibly dedicated to finding answers but unfortunately for him every time we find an answer for him it opens up a new mystery. while dna testing was able to provide some very important answers it also opened up additional mysteries he had to then try to solve. his story just goes on and on. he never gives up. thank you very much for helping us preview this. the new cnn film the lost sons premieres sunday night at 9:00
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