(Photo of Kathy Gillcrist (Credit: Kathy Gillcrist) Gillcrist said her first DNA match connected her to several distant cousins, including a third cousin Susan Gillmor."We both felt like we'd just connected with someone we'd known forever.
We've been friends ever since and have managed to meet in person twice," Gillmor, who currently lives in Maine, said. AdvertisementGillmor is coincidentally an amateur genealogy and DNA enthusiast and offered to help Gillcrist track down the history of her parents. RELATED: Exclusive: FBI rescues Washington child in international kidnapping case "It took almost a year for me to definitively discover which twig of my tree contributed a parent to Kathy's heritage.