TULSA, Okla. - Jeanette Batchelor-Young had been trying to trace her roots for years when she received a message that would change what she knew about her heritage. There were still so many gaps in her family history: Batchelor-Young had lived with her father briefly until his death, and then she was adopted. She knew the names of his mother and grandmother, but little else.
The message came from a forensics lab and revealed a twist in Batchelor-Young's understanding of her paternal family's journey from a small Texas farming community to Northern California. It turns out there was a stopover ...
