Michelle Leonard
speaker
58 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Michelle Leonard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tortoise investigates.
My name is Michelle Leonard.
I am a professional genealogist, DNA detective.
I wear a lot of hats, but primarily I focus and specialize on solving mysteries, especially complex mysteries, using DNA testing.
Everyone has the right to know where you come from, the right to know who your parents were and the right to have your medical history and know things that might be really important to your medical future as well.
However, the right to know is not the same as the right to a relationship.
The parent has the right to say, I don't want to be contacted.
I don't want to have a relationship.
And as sad and devastating as that can be at times for the child in that instance, that has to be respected.
Hopefully we're in the right place here.
OK, let's see if we can make that a bit bigger.
All right, so we are looking here at Jess's ancestry results.
What I do is I build a private and unsearchable research tree in Ancestry and I work the matches.
these kinds of cases are like giant jigsaw puzzles.
However, they're old jigsaw puzzles.
All the pieces are a bit, you know, worn.
There's bits missing.
The box is long gone.
You don't know what the original jigsaw is meant to look like.
And you just have to slowly start to put these old worn pieces on the board until a picture emerges.
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