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Personal journeys

  • Aseem Adhav
    Senior IT Specialist IBM Business Consulting Group

    Aseem found that the previous genetic research he’d studied – done a century ago – was amazingly accurate.

  • Denis Arvay
    IBM Global Business Services

    Denis's haplogroup isn't commonly found where he knows his ancestors lived, prompting him to do more research.

  • Robyn Betchner
    Consultant

    Although her Genographic profile confirmed her European ancestry, it still held some surprises.

  • Madeleine Casey McBroom
    Project Manager Integrated Technology Delivery

    For some, the genetic journey has taken surprising turns. Madeleine learned what may have drawn her East.

  • Kallima Clarke
    Restructuring / Vacancy Specialist

    A member of Haplogroup L1, Kallima Clarke is a direct descendent of "Mitochondrial Eve," the common ancestor of all humans, who lived 150,000 to 170,000 years ago.

  • Steve Curtis and family
    Business development manager, autonomic computing - IBM Software Group

    Four different paths led home for the Curtises – a truly adoptive family.

  • Nick Donofrio
    IBM Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology

    Like many Americans, Nick Donofrio, IBM Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology, knew his ancestors came from somewhere else.

  • Pete Gegen
    Delivery Project Executive for IBM Global Services

    Pete Gegen's Genographic Project results were especially important to him because he was adopted into his family.

  • Rod Adkins
    Vice President, IBM Systems & Technology

    Rod Adkins is not surprised to find that his ancestors came from sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Neale Barret
    IBM Systems &Technology Group, Development Service Strategy & Research liaison

    What Nick learned about his origins left a gap that's given him more to study.

  • Ken Buckingham
    Project Manager IBM Systems & Technology Group

    Ken's results confirmed centuries of his family's record-keeping – back 10 generations to 1636.

  • Stephan J. Clambaneva
    IBM Software Group, Worldwide Sales / PLM Marketing Manager

    Stephan had traced his family's microscopic ancestral paths to the First Crusade, but the Genographic Project provided him with new perspective.

  • David F. Claypool
    Integrated Technology Delivery, Server Operations Manager, Operations

    Although his family history is well documented, David waited for his results much like a child waits for Christmas.

  • Nish Deodhar
    IBM Software Group

    Born and raised in India, Nish was shocked to learn his haplogroup is of European origin.

  • Theresa Dupree
    Customer Service Representative for IBM Global Services

    Because she was adopted as a child, Theresa Dupree has no information about her genetic family background and none was provided to her adoptive parents.

  • Daniel Gonzales
    IBM Global Technology Services

    Daniel's Cro-Magnon ancestors are famed for their cave paintings. So it may be more than coincidence that his father became a Disney animator.

  • Lisa Gurney
    IBM Sales & Distribution, Operations

    Although her grandparents were first-generation Italians, Lisa was surprised at the route their forebears took to arrive there.

  • Paul Horn
    IBM Senior Vice President

    Paul Horn, a self-described "mongrel," knows that one of his ancestors was beheaded – a claim very few of us can make.

  • Patti Ivansheck
    Administrative Support IBM Software Group

    For Pat Ivansheck, adopted as a child, everything she thought she knew about her cultural background changed.

  • Paul Grundy
    Human Resources Director

    It's not everyone who can boast of an ancestor who was once part of a political slogan.

  • Gayle Huntling
    Certified Migration Technical Specialist, Storage

    Gayle's family has been active in tracing its genealogy and knows it has origins in Britain.

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