"WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?" As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions-that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her first visit to the Boulder Genealogy Society brought her more questions than answers . . . but it also gave...

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Sean was confused on why the other students said he didn't look like Dad. Sean's dad explained that his ancestry is Irish and his mom's ancestry is Filipino. He explained that Sean had the best features of both parents.

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