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While researching her family history, writer Silvia Foti made a shocking discovery — her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator whose actions helped lead to the deaths of likely thousands of Lithuanian Jews.
Foti's revelation was unique, but the advent of DNA testing and genealogy sites has led to some alarming shakeups in families. Have you shaken a skeleton out of your closet? And does it change your view of yourself when you learn something ignoble about your ancestors?
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