Darlene (Unknown) Marquardt

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Daughter of Zeland Waggoner and Maxine Iva Hart

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I was raised by very loving, caring parents as well as their extended family, who loved me as if they were my biological parents/family. On my MyHeritage website I have family trees for both my adopted family and my biological family.

I love to read - play the piano, compose music, design webpages, and garden. I have 2 children and 2 grandchildren. My husband and I live in Eastern Oregon. He was adopted also.

Bio: I was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and adopted by Cecil and Marie Blocksom, when I was 6 months old. We traveled to Oregon in a brand spanking new 1949 Oldsmobile. We lived one year in Troutdale, Oregon before moving to Gresham, Oregon. I grew up in the Gresham Oregon area and moved to the Oregon coast after graduating from College, where I began teaching school. I lived in several states during my career and ended up in Eastern Oregon. I am certified Music Ed Pre-K through 12, Business Ed grades 5-12 and Career Technical grades 9-12. I retired at the end of the 2015 school year.

I did my DNA to see if I could connect with anyone in my biological family and I have a gedmatch account too. I was amazed that in less than a month, I was able to connect with biological family and fill in the gaps in the story I knew. Everything matched like a perfect jigsaw puzzle. I have become Facebook friends with my brothers and some nieces. I have had an email from a 1st cousin telling me some family history. It is amazing that after 70 years of being an only child, I am now blessed with siblings who have for many years been wishing to discover me.

I am a very active member of Toastmasters International and Oregon Hunter Education Instructors Association, holding offices in both.

I have joined the Indiana Adoptees Facebook page - [1]. and have registered on the Indiana Adoptees registry.

Awards / Positions:

• Newsletter of the Year - Oregon Business Education Association - 2009
• Distinguished Service Award - Or. Business Education Assoc. 2010
• President Oregon Business Education Assoc. -2010-2011
• Telecommunications Director - Western Business Education Assoc. 2012 - 2014
• Public Relations Manager - Toastmasters District 9 2014-2016
• Distinguished Toastmaster - Toastmasters International 2017
• Webmaster - Oregon Hunters Education Instructors Assoc.
• Owner/Web Design - D and J Computers

Ethnicity Origins

Great Britain 44% Scandinavia 18% Ireland/Scotland/Wales 15% Europe West 13%

== source == AncestryDNA.com

I have cited DNA matches between myself and my daughter and my grandson.. listed on their profile pages.

Sources

Personal Experience: birth of my children and Ancestry DNA Centimorgans over # of segments confirmation.

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• Sibling relationship confirmed Darlene Marquardt and Peter Waggoner Predictied Relationship, siblings based on 2590 Centimorgans across 56 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Paternal relationship to Zeland Waggoner is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Darlene Marquardt and Angela Pruitt-Smithson, great niece. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 1st - 2nd Cousins/great niece based on sharing 712 centimorgans shared across 31 DNA segments. ; Confidence: Extremely High.

• and with Angela's Mother, Iva Pruitt , niece (daughter of Rebecca Waggoner ) - 1,522 centimorgans shared across 51 DNA segments Confidence: Extremely High.