What is like to have someone contact you and give you a whole new history about your family member, one that you never knew? Hear Teri talk about about what it was like when we shared what we've learned about our great-grandmother, Estrella/Stella who is also her grandmother, Wilma E. Nelson. Listen as we hear from the one person we've met who actually knew her.

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What happens when you find what you've been looking for? Whether you've been searching for a day, 25 years or 100 years, there's still a moment when it doesn't feel real! This episode, find out what happened when we finally heard from a DNA match and the HUGE discovery we made together!

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We waited for years to hear from a DNA match. We were sure they held the key to the mystery of what happened to our great-grandmother, Estrella Suarez/Stella DeBoard after she gave up her children. In this episode we tell the story of finally connecting with that match, being disappointed by their family tree, and making an unbelievable connection.

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We spent season 1 of Buried Threads sharing the mystery that is our great-grandmother and how her story unfolded over two decades of research. This season, we're back with new discoveries, fresh leads, and more threads to pull. Listen to this episode to hear all the new details we've uncovered just in the last several weeks. 🧵Season 2: because she wasn't done surprising us.

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We end the season with a song created for our podcast, our family's search, for our grandmother, and for Estrella.

Season 2 is coming!!

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We're wrapping up season 1. We had new conversations with family members and we believe there's a fourth child of Estrella out there somewhere - maybe our DNA match in LA holds the key!

Season 2 is coming soon!

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This episode we talk about the surreal moment when Estrella's grandchildren meet for the very first time. We sat around a table and we talked about Manuel, Rosa, Mary Rose, Estrella, Marie Christine and more. Listen for the moment when the realization dawned that we are family!

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Today we explore the road to knowing those who were once just a DNA match. We discuss some of our conversations and we consider how DNA is being used to connect families and even to solve crimes.

Our family is growing right before our eyes and we are happy to share it with you!

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Today we look at the stories of two of the children Estrella, and Christopher in some ways, left behind. What were their lives like? What did they wonder about? What did they search for? And what does science tell us about trauma responses passed down from one generation to another?

This one is for her.

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From being orphaned at a young age, to serving in the military, to becoming a husband and father; today we're digging into Christopher's past. We encountered a surprise (or two) and we're still left with questions.

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We take a closer look at the life she lived when she reinvented herself as Stella Smith. Another marriage, two more children, fracture in the family, and an eventual divorce. The mystery deepens considerably when Stella disappears...again.

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We're going back even further in time: before the DNA surprises, before the disappearances and adoptions, there was a man named Manuel Suarez. And there was a woman who changed his life: Rosa. This story is a love story. Learn about this couple and how they help fill in some missing pieces of our story.

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How a man named Paul led us to a woman named Estrella - Episode 2 explores how a young mother and wife just disappeared in the early 1920s. Did she leave in the middle of the night? Did she have help? Where did she go? And the unanswerable question: why did she leave?

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