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I'm so excited for you! Maybe you could do an episode, "25 things about me" and share all about your learned heritage. How exciting if you learn about new relations! 🤗😊
It was very brave of you to do this on air, because you could have had a nasty surprise. I'm so relieved for you that it is as you hoped it would be. Being a Celt is cool, btw. Red hair is a common Celtic trait, not just Irish. My hair looked dark brown but (at least before the grey hit lol, this was some time ago!) it was all the other colours except any brown. Even now there's red (from ginger through to dark auburn), black and even a bunch of blonde shades, but particularly before the grey first turned up, if you looked at the single strands, none were brown. Don't _just_ cling to "being Irish", you're a mix of the Goedelic and Brythonic (Gaelic & British) Celts, so you have a mix of full and wonderful cultures in you. All closely related, but distinctly different. N E European blood is no real surprise because over the millennia, people from those regions ended up in Britain, so there's a chance that all of these ethnicities have come out of as few as one single generation! (A ready-mix of all the Celts meets up with your ready-made E European+, and there you go. But given the percentages, it's more probable that that line is a mix with a Celt at the point they all join up. Whatever, being a Celt gives you definite cool points lol! I'm Welsh, my husband is English - probably Roman & Anglo-Saxon on his mother's side (blonde hair and she had the Roman nose - thank goodness for plastic surgery lol. I didn't see what the problem was, but she was dead set on it, so who am I to argue?) - and definitely Ashkenazi Jewish from Poland and Ukraine on his father's side (he's the archetypal E European Jew: tall, skinny, balding, has "the nose" 😆. He's gorgeous to me even after 36 years together 💞). Our kids are quite the mix, and as I said, all of the mixes finally combined in one generation (hubby's great grandparents came from Europe during the 1890s pogroms, so it didn't take long for his father's heritage, Polish & Ukrainian, with a hint of German, to come into being. Just that extra generation or two). Some lineages can take millennia to "coalesce", as it were, but it only need take one. By the way, Mayo, Sligo (sl-eye-go) etc are Irish counties. Ever since the Celts colonised Ireland, there's been a lot of back & forth between our Irish cousins and us (us meaning Welsh & Scottish), so heaven only knows who, what, where, when (I won't say "how" 😉) you actually got each bit! 🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪
Sligo is SLY- GO Galway GAWL-WAY - your pronunciation made me think you were trying to say Galloway. County Mayo. It's an area. A county - like a state, but smaller scale and more unified with other counties, than states are with states. So you are getting the areas where your genes are usually found, within Ireland.
my wife was the result of a "night before shipping out" for Viet Nam. for 53 years, she never knew her father. last year, she did the DNA test, and found her biological father. she contacted him, and amazingly, he was not only open to meeting her, flew half way across the country to meet the family. and they have been in close contact every since. sometimes it DOES work out.
It was in the back of my mind when my daughter suggested taking one. Was I going to find out I have half vietnamese/Korean siblings...was there going to be aunts or uncles or cousins from when my grandfather was in WW2? I really wonder how many half siblings out there that were conceived during war time are out there.
It's not a surprise to anyone that so many 'secret' babies were born due to a war. It's quite natural and it's only our stubborn and silly religious beliefs that make such births 'secrets'. It should never have been that way. Babies are a gift no matter how they were conceived. Although I can't imagine the pain of having a child due to a criminal offence, if you know what I mean. That is also more common than we would like to admit. A horrible situation for both mother and child. But, if people were more accepting and loving towards each other, there would be no shame in those births either.
Trying to help my half-brother with this same scenario, but have hit so many bricks, we came up with 4 family names that gave the closest matches, but no one msgs back =(
I was a result of coming home from Vietnam. I'm 50 yrs old and just found out 2 yrs ago who my real father was and he died 1977 so I suppose ut was never meant to be for him and I.
@@Yosetime Fully agree with you. It's criminal to separate mothers from their babies like certain institutions do. I have only found one case of illegitimacy in my family in the last 300 years.Thankully she was brought up with a very loving family,which I can't find any evidence of being related to the child's Mother's family. Investigation ongoing with search do he biological father.She was born in the 1860s.
Found out I have Jewish blood on my Dad’s side. Turns out, my great-grandma (who we always assumed was Polish) was a miracle. Her tiny hamlet southeast of Warsaw had running issues with Russia, and military interaction was common. One day, the Red army rolled into town & wiped out every living soul. Her mom had the foresight to hide my great-grandma in a wall before the attack, and was the sole survivor. A day or two later, neighbors came to see what/ who might be left. A Polish lady found her in her hiding place, adopted her, & brought her to America, where she grew up & eventually met her husband (full Polish). Without her mother’s loving sacrifice, I wouldn’t exist!
I had always hoped that I had been switched at birth because my family sucks. Several years ago I had two DNA tests done by two different companies. Even though I discovered a LOT of ancestors I never knew about, sadly, my parents were my real parents and my siblings are my real siblings. Dammit.
My dad, who's in his 70s, discovered about 5 years ago that his dad was not actually his father. My niece is very interested in researching her ancestry, so the whole family did dna tests to help her in her research. She discovered that my dad was not blood related to any relatives from his dad's side. We figured out the whole story eventually. From the point of view of my dad's dad who raised him, he went away to war (WW2), came back to find his wife pregnant by another man. Baby is born and his wife dies from childbirth complications. He registers the birth, naming himself as father, remarries, and raises my dad as his own, never once mentioning that they were not blood related. My dad grew up with one step brother only, but we discovered he actually has 2 half brothers and 2 half sisters (with attached families) from his biological father.
I met a lady in college in 1987. We hooked up for about a week , then went our separate ways. On September 4th, 2021, I got a call that I have a daughter. We connected, and it feels wonderful. I missed out on her childhood, but I'm looking forward to the future. Her mom is my friend as well. This turned out awesome. I ❤️ my daughter.
We gave our daughter and son-in-law DNA tests as a present for Christmas one year. His mom is adopted and when he was browsing his results he was able to get a line on her bio mom. Needless to say he was able to get enough information to be able to reunite his mother with her bio mom and siblings. Her mom has since passed away but she was able to take care of her for a couple of years. Pretty cool stuff.
2 years ago my daughter convinced me to do ancestry DNA. long story short I found my birth family. I have 2 sisters and a huge clan of relatives. I also found that I am so white I’m reflective. 😅. Congrats on your journey…it’s only just begun.
I didn't take a DNA test but, my whole family thought we were Irish until, while tracing our genealogy, my Aunt went to Ireland for further study. She found out that the family she had been tracing was not our family at all. While they had the same last name and they were Irish, our family is actually Scottish.
To be fair, the family could have originally been from Ireland, there was a great deal of immigration to Scotland from Ireland in the last few centuries.
I took a DNA test and discovered an aunt that nobody knew about! My mom had grown up with only brothers, never knowing she had an older sister somewhere. My grandfather was in Panama for a while during WWII and had a relationship with a woman there, of which my aunt was the result. She ended up getting adopted by a family in the U.S. after the war. We connected and hope to meet later this year! As for heritage, I was surprised to learn I'm mostly of Norwegian descent. I figured I was mostly Irish and German based on family stories. I also was happy to learn I have some DNA from Senegal, as well as Egypt and Mongolia! I look about as white as mayo thanks to Norway lol
After my parents got divorced, my mother remarried in ‘87, giving me three younger step-siblings, whom I always thought of as my brothers and sister. After taking a DNA test about 3 years ago, I found out that I had a half-sister by my father, who was born a few years after my parents’ divorce. The real shocker in this situation was that I already knew her well. She married one of my step-brothers and they had three children together, whom I had always thought of as my nephews and my niece. As it turned out, they really were. 😂 What I have learned from this experience is: 1) Truth is stranger than fiction, 2) Life can be spooky sometimes, and 3) God has a funny sense of humor. 🤷🏻♀️
I took a DNA test in order to find out who my father's biological father was. My grandmother who was a Bible thumping, down on unwed mothers type person was not forthcoming about who my biological grandfather was ,but it was known that my Dad had been born out of wedlock. See my mother's sister, my aunt knew all about my Paternal gmother being what today is called The town bicycle ( meaning everyone got to ride 😆) The test helped me discover my Dads father and that all but 2 of my grandmother's 7 children had different fathers. Funny thing is my father was the only one born before my grandmother got married. 🤔 makes me wonder why the hypocrisy and extreme religious fervor, maybe she was trying to atone for "sins" could never admitted to committing
This is just indicative of those who ate pointing fingers and condemning the loudest are often times guilty of what they're accusing others of, I've seen this time and time again, including my own batshit crazy horrible sociopathic sister
In my opinion, organized religion has done way more bad than it has good. I don't think it was meant to be that way. But power, greed, and money seeped it's way into religion a very long time ago and now just about all religion is a farce. Nowadays it's safer just to pray at home to whatever or whoever inspires you and follow your gut. Make that your religion. Stay away from churches of all kinds.
@@debbylou5729 She literally kept having affairs and babies by other men after she was married. Religion aside, that's alot of damage to a marital relationship and to your kids of many fathers. If she didn't want to be married and have children with her husband she could have chosen a different path. At the very least, don't go around judging others with your bible thumping if you're the one doing the deed. It's deceptive. She had other choices.
Hey mike , so check this out . My sister and myself are also adopted ,she had a kid and put him up for adoption as well . I can’t remember exactly how she found out but her son that was adopted lives right next door to my aunt and uncle’s house!! My sister and the rest of my family still has a relationship with that whole family and my sister sees her kid often .
I'm adopted as well. I used ancestry dna in 2018. I found a full blood brother who was also adopted. He have a close relationship now. Love him dearly.
My daughter did a DNA test and found a first degree relative. After some investigation we found the son that my son fathered when he was 16. It was a joyful reunion and they are making up for lost time
My mother-in-law always accused her husband of cheating on her. He would ignore her or have ugly comments. After they both died, dna tests became popular. My sister-in-law was notified of a dna match. They told her she had a half brother. Sure enough. They have a half brother out there. He knew all about them, that his father was married, it was so unnerving. She met him, he is nice, but that was all. So strange.
I was adopted. I found my birth mother basically breaking a lot of rules back in the 90's before the internet. Then, when I found her, she wanted nothing to do with me, and told me I was the only child she ever had. Would never say who my father was. Fast forward to the late 2010's when DNA was affordable. I took the test and found her, AND two brothers. Boy, were they surprised. Come to find out, they had been adopting children and then find out their mother put up a child for adoption. Ya, didn't go well. But I did gain one brother who likes me, the other hates me for me taking that test.
Coincidentally, just today (after saving this to watch later), I found out about 2 half sisters via another DNA company. I have known officially (but always suspected) for 14 years that the family I grew up wasn’t my biological family. I knew the names on the birth certificate but nothing else. Prior to today it was only distant cousins on my profile. Today a sister contacted me and then passed my contact info on to the second half sister. There was also a half brother that passed away.
We had cousins given up in the 60's who found us through a DNA test. My aunt who was their mother passed as well as 2 of her siblings and my grandparents. So everyone who would have known about them were gone. We weren't supposed to know about them but heard through a different source, so it wasn't a total surprise but it was a good one. I thought we would never know anything about them at all.
My natural father left when I was a newborn and my mother remarried.The guy she remarried adopted me, and I wasn't told any of this until I was in high school in the 80s. Later on, through social media, I found out that I had two half-brothers and a half-sister from when my natural father remarried. Fast-forward to about 2020, I decided to take a DNA test (sorry for your sponsor, but it was through Ancestry). What I found out through those results is that I had yet another half-sister. She is older than me and that affair happened before even my mother and natural father were together. She had no idea who her natural father was because her mother never told her, AND he had no idea he had this daughter because the mother never told him either. The weird part is that we all live in the same small-ish city and have all of our lives- meaning we've likely came across each other over the years without realizing it. What's even weirder is my grandmother on my mother's side went through almost the same scenario, which has made studying my family tree interesting. MORAL OF THE STORY: don't lie to your kids- you never know what kind of accessible technology will be available to them in the future!
I took a DNA test just to confirm what I already knew. As a kids in school we had an assignment to trace our family tree. (about the time Roots the mini series came out) My family is one who has a family blanket, where each generation adds a piece of cloth to the blanket. Ours dates back well over 150yrs back to slavery. So there were no surprises, 90%African American, small amount 8% Native American w/ 2% European. German to be exact. Everything I knew was confirmed. My wife took one w/o any surprises either she's 70% African American, 10% Native American, 19% Brazilian and 1% European. Everything she already knew. No surprises w/ our kids were a blended family, she had 2 girls an I had twin boys when we met 20yrs ago. We later on adopted each other's kids. That was 18yrs ago, were one big happy family the kids are grown up doing very well all in their early and mid 20s.
@@cecelastname6362 When you love someone and want them to be in your life you have to love their kids too or it's a useless relationship.(married 18yrs) Plus we both had piece of, well you know ex's, that give up their parental rights.
Fellow adoptee here, Mike. Great video! I was super happy that my family tree was NOT a straight stick. My family had issues so I was worried about that.
Ahhh so Lydia Fairchild's case definitely has me thinking. You see in May 1983 my parents conceived twins....in January 1984 my mum gave birth to me and me only. My twin was absorbed early-mid 2nd trimester. I have never required DNA testing before, but now I'm thinking "am I the biological mother of my 3 children?" I might just need to arrange some DNA tests.
There have been more cases found like hers because of DNA testing. One mom lost her 4 kids until a social worker was there when the 5th was born to prove she was a chimera.
A down side of the health information MyHeritage, 23&Me, etc offer is that unless you live in the US where the government doesn’t care, or any country this sort of info is permitted to be provided, you miss out. Here in Australia, it is still considered “Under review”, and many insurance companies recommend avoiding the health portion when they are permitted in Australia, as it could give the insurance providers the right to increase premiums or even refuse membership if it is found you have a DNA high risk of something.
Yup, that was my first reason for not ever wanting to do a DNA test years ago when they first came out. Insurance companies wield too much power in the U.S.
@@list25 Wait a minute, I thought this channel became a pet or something of that nature channel??? I enjoyed watching list 25 and was saddened when it was cancelled or something like that, I'm a bit confused.
I have a close friend who she thought was her father, who had passed away wasn't after a DNA test. She confronted her mother and her mother freaked out. She found her real biological father and they have a good relationship along with three new half sisters.
Cool vid! I was raised by my mom's family and always knew I was Lithuanian, English and French-Canadian on that side. I was very surprised to find Scotland and Ireland in my genes, since no one in my family had red hair! I was led to believe that my dad's family was Spanish. DNA test proved otherwise. I have DNA from Indigenous Americas: Mexico, with roots in the Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas regions. Also, 1% Cameroon, Congo and West Bantu people. I guess my ancestors really got around!
The red hair Irish/Scottish thing is a bit of a myth. Many Scots have huge amounts of Scandinavian dna, people from the south of Ireland - like those from South Wales - have a lot of Spanish dna!
Actually the original Irish and Scottish had dark features/ hair like Spanish. Blonde and red hair from danish or Norway Vikings etc that raided and stayed.
I grew up being told my ancestry was Scandinavian and German/French. My DNA came back 92% Scandinavian, 6% England & NW Europe and 2% Germanic Europe. I am so white, I glow.
That was fun. First time visiting your channel. I just loved watching your reaction to your own DNA results: especially when you hugged your computer to your chest smiling all the while. So wonderful to see a person truly happy to be themselves! 🎉💖
Being adopted at basically birth, I feel you when it comes to "wondering the what ifs" but it kinda opens your eyes alot to honestly.. you really understand blood doesn't make family.
Mike, my Irish friend the colour green suits you. My DNA shows me that I am Irish from Galway on my mothers side and Viking from my fathers side Hence the name Yorke from the city of York, England. Jorvik was the name given to the settlement by the Viking invaders.........Plus i have Spanish DNA from a shipwrecked Sailor washed up on the east shores of Ireland after his Galleon tried to flee back to Spain in a storm after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. So this is way I can drink copious amounts of the 'Black Stuff'...never loose a Hammer,....but get totally lost in a light rain shower with no sense of direction.
The view of my mother would not be drastically altered if I found out my sisters and I had different fathers My mom’s awesome I thank God she’s still here to guilt trip me at 80 God bless my mom
I am currently looking for my biological father's family for medical reasons and I've taken some DNA test and have a ancestry tree and hon red hair isn't as common in Ireland as you'd think the red is actually left over from the Viking days and the Vikings landed in Ireland and how you have redheads in Ireland and I got more than I expected in my tests I'm native American ( Cherokee) and Irish German and other I even have Sephardic and gypsy and Bulgarian and we even found Persian my dad's half Celtic mutt and native American but mom is the one with the cultural DNA crazy quilt and I love my rich heritage and I never knew when I was a kid I started my genealogy and DNA journey about 20 years ago..and good luck with your journey and have fun
Took a DNA test a few years after my Mom passed but she would have been vindicated on my Father's identity, she was always honest with me on his identity but he said I wasn't his and never had contact... We now send msg. on birthdays.
I could trace my father's family all the way back to a small German village in the 1700's. I submitted a sample to Ancestry and it turns out I haven't a drop of German in me. I am 75% British with much of the rest in the Norwegian, Swedish, Switzerland areas. There had been rumors all my life. The rumors were confirmed. It wasn't as much of a surprise as it was a relief to know for certain. The real surprise came when my youngest daughter submitted her DNA to the site. Turns out my daughter's father is a relative of mine. I've not gone back since to figure out how closely we are related (not half siblings, at least I don't think so.) I'm not sure I want to know.
What I’ve found out that only some parts of the DNA shows up, not exact. I also have paperwork trail from Germany, but I don’t show any in my resultsScandinavians traveled a lot. My sister shows the German.
@@robinanderson8211 That's what I'm telling myself, lol. My DNA did not match any of my father's family who also took the test. None of their names appeared as a DNA match.
I've been told I'm Irish/Welsh. I'm Australian born, and 90% of my immediate family are no longer alive. I have a brother and some 1st cousins that are still alive. It would be interesting to find out about my heritage 🙂
I was adopted too. Upon digging, as an adult, because of some health issues my son had. I discovered that I was actually raised by my maternal grandparents. I also learned the name and ethnicity of my biological father.
I’ve done my DNA a couple of times with very similar results. One company updates as technology changes and databases are expanded and updated. It’s always fascinated me. I have 2 adopted brothers. I am the only girl, only biological child and the youngest. But because of my brothers, I’ve been intrigued by dna and ancestry research. So this is great!❤ I’m 98% Irish and English, then the rest is French,Swiss, and Finnish. So I too am white…LOL…😆..my irl last name is an English surname from the Sussex area, aka South Saxons. 👍🏻
I used 23 and Me's DNA test and found out I'm mostly European. My results have evolved over the years. I swear in the beginning I was more British than German. I also used to be 100% European and now I'm not. I just find it all interesting. I did it with my sister and it's interesting how similar but different our DNA is.
I am the eldest of 8 children none of whom I have ever personally met because I was adopted out. I used an investigator and DNA. Given the sad position my sibs found themselves in I was the lucky one. Thank goodness I was given up. Mayo is the county.
My husband discovered an older brother who was born before his oldest known sibling was. They were both born in the same year. He is a lovely man whom we have grown really fond of. It turns out that he and my oldest brother in law belonged to the same organization, attended many functions at the same time. They only knew each others first name and didn't realize they were brothers. We only found this brother after my husbands oldest known brother passed. They would have been great friends had they known.
I already know my Heritage , Irish, Scottish, English / British, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Cherokee Indian , but I use to not know what I'am. ⚾🇺🇸🗽🦅🦃🦅
Oh, please, if they want your dna, they already have it. The Gov is anyone dies not need a third-party company to get your dna. You drop your dna everywhere you go.. and what exactly are thy going to do to your dna??? Torture it??
I was adopted too! Found my biomom before we did a DNA test. Turns out that my heritage is ALSO the nations where my adopted family is from, right down to the counties shown.
Hi from Tampa. I have known my birthmother for years, but my birthfather was a mystery. I took several DNA tests, including MH. Found who he is (deceased) but my shock was after thinking I was only German my whole life, my father’s family fought in all the American wars and were in Colonial America since the 1600s. #surprise
I found out through 23andme that my dad wasn't my biodad. I wasn't really affected by the results becuase both my parents are trash and have no interest in meeting biodad. BuT that being said, it did give me an interest in genealogy and I helped multiple people trace their results to find thier bioparents (adoption) or father. It was really fulfilling. I stopped doing it a year or so ago becuase i obsessed and that's not healthy considering I have 4 kids to raise haha
4:20 reminds me of the story of the man who, when he told his father about every girl he wanted to marry, his Dad said, "you can't. She's your half sister. When i was a teenager, I had a bike and got around a bit". Completely distraught he eventually revealed this to his mother, who said "You marry whoever you want to Son. He's not your father anyway".
20 of my friends did DNA tests. He found his bio parents who got married several years after he was born. He has met them, and they are great people. He found out he has a full sister and brother and he had actually met his sister. His partner discovered the man who raised her was not her bio father, her mother had a fling with a traveling rodeo bronc rider who evidently spread his seed far and wide. So far, she has found 7 half-siblings and that is only those who have taken DNA tests.
Found out at age 38 that my bio father was not my mom's husband and the person I called dad my whole life through one of these tests. My mom told no one... Not even her husband that I wasn't his. Turns out she was seeing a chiropractor who was having affairs with a bunch of his married patients. I have a ton of half siblings and I reached out to many of them when I discovered the news. My heritage changed drastically as well. Very bizzare experience.
Im unsure about doing a dna test/geneology, mostly because i know my father's side is likely to be messed up for a few generations and incredibly hard to trace. So im first generation Australian on my dads side (mum's side is very well researched up to mum's generation so no real shocks there, both sides maternally go back 5-6 generations to Britain and Ireland). Growing up i knew my dad emigrated from Poland as a child in the 60s, and was told that babcia (my paternal grandmother) was technically my great grandmother who had adopted her grandson because her daughter was unfit to be a mother. This narrative is now in question however as more recently i have heard that my dad's "adoption" was a cover for my grandmother having a child at "an advanced age" (by which i mean late 30s-early 40s). I've also been told that the man i knew as my paternal grandfather was a step parent who was also originally from Poland, but emigrated separately after ww2 and met here in aus, and that he never went back to Europe after the war due to ptsd (he was a prisoner of war). And apparently my paternal grandmother was also (supposedly) of Jewish ancestry (for those following along she was a young Jewish woman from Poland during ww2. I would be very surprised if any of the paperwork still existed for me to trace).
I did my DNA kit through MyHeritage and then my card was flagged for fraud! lol (I got it taken care of) I haven't gotten my results yet, but I already have a vast amount of information from my mom's paternal grandmother's mother's side, going back to the 1700s or so. I also have my great grandmother's original baptismal certificate in German from 1901.
When I got my DNA test results back from two different companies they were both pretty much the same. I discovered that I am mostly Scottish, some Irish and British. I too love mayo and in fact, I was just eating a hamburger and dipping my fries into mayonnaise. Cheers!
I did Ancestry in 2018 to see if I was Native American. Not a drop. But I found two half siblings from a one night stand and years later when Dad was stationed in Korea. My half brother took his DNA test weeks before me! We met a few months later and immediately bonded. I'm also looking forward to meeting my half sister in a few months. Yes, it was a huge shock, but I'm thrilled to have new siblings. My two full sisters, not so much. They want nothing to do with the new sibs.
The Native American thing is a problematic thing. Unless you have Native ancestry from the far southwest, it will turn up nothing. Ancestry doesn't have enough DNA data on other tribes in the US to compare to. So it doesn't mean you don't have Native American ancestry, just that they can't detect it. They are adding data all the time though. So you never know when your results might change. Mine have a couple of times. I found the same issue, but I'm a member of a tribe and have the genealogical documents to back it up.
I have a cousin who is an expert in DNA genealogy and she is related to me on countless lines (mostly Acadian, so endogamy family). She has verified many indigenous in my ancestors, but I have 0%. It’s truly amazing when I have matches who have a small percentage, even my first cousins and I am related to both of their parents.
I'm not adopted but I took a DNA test basically for shits and giggles, and found out that I am as white as snow basically. I'm mostly German with 26%, which I would NOT have expected, but it makes sense, Swedish and Danish with 25%, Italian (obviously) with 18%, Irish with 12%, Scottish with 9%, Nordic with 7%, Russian (somehow) with 2%, and Finnish with 1%. I know nobody cares but you're welcome for my ancestry breakdown lol.
I'm a mixture of Italian, Norwegian and English. What's curious is that my two brothers clearly have different mixes. I am the most Italian. I looked totally Italian as a kid, and am very close to my Italian relatives, speak Italian, and have lived there a couple of times. My older brother is the Norwegian one and my younger brother the English one. In terms of percentages I am more Scandinavian than Italian, but that's not my experience of it. When my cousin Stefano's wife first met me she said "You could be my husband's brother, and you are such a Giglli." I asked "In what way?" "You know, high-strung, intellectual, elitist." Oh yeah.
Mike, you and I could be related as I am also Irish, Scottish and Welch and in my younger days also had red in my beard. We should talk as I would get one of these kits and may very well in the future but am unable to afford it at this time. I am in the process of bringing my fiancé to this country. Wish me luck and hope to talk to you soon cousin. I knew there was a reason I always liked you and was upset when you were not on List 25 for awhile, glad you are back. 🤩
I took Ancestry DNA test and found I'm 76 percent Jewish in Central and Eastern Europe , 20 percent Swedish and Danish, 3 percent Welsh, 1 percent Norweigan .... I am a practicing Conservative American Jew with a Danish born father and Mom is first generation born American with parents who were born in Lithuania and Poland.
Wow, most Ashkenazi Jews are in the 90s, often high 90s, as Jews because until recently they didn't tend to marry outside of their group. 76% is equivalent of a grandparent or 2 great-grandparents who weren't of Ashkenazi Jewish descent
I came because of the content, but I just have to comment my 11-year-old would be your instant best friend as he also loves Tampa Bay. We are all the way in Idaho so he is a man on an island. This is my first experience with your page, and I love it! I’m going to look into more of your content!
Mike, I want to take this opportunity to officially welcome you to your Irish family . This country would be so proud to call you one of our own. Mayo is one of the wildest most beautiful Counties in the country. Look up Westport. Here’s wishing you all the best, hope we see you over here someday. Love from Ireland ❤🇮🇪☘️
To add when you once divulge that you suffer from psoriasis I went oh he’s Irish. Cause Ireland holds the record for the highest cases of it in the entire world.
My son, over a decade ago, took a DNA test. When he got a call and and it was a rather excited person from the DNA Company. She went on to tell him, that he had a 25% match in the mother DNA, to a famous queen.... frequently referee to as the headless queen.
Glad you found out what you wanted to know. My mother was adopted, & would've killed to be able to do this. She died 15 years ago, & it was not possible. I'd love to, but I'd never be able to afford it.
@@list25 from the west of Ireland, I live in limerick not far from Galway, those areas are beautiful you should visit and do the Atlantic way tour, it would be a nice welcome home tour
I was raised in a dominantly white but proudly mixed family. My mother raised me as the youngest of four children. The other three had the same father but I was never told anything about mine. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins were all either in the dark about who he was or sworn to secrecy. I would ask questions, and they would change the subject. I am in my 30's now and I have a family of my own. Due to health reasons, I went to ancestry and took a DNA test. While waiting for results, one of my uncles whispered to me a name. I got my results. I took a trip to meet the family. Two, (An Aunt and a cousin) were amazing. The father turned out to be a former KKK member. I never got the chance to meet him or my siblings. It turned out that he had raped my mother who was working as a nanny in his home. I was in that state for a week learning about that family. The siblings refused to meet me.
@@list25 Agreed. The aunt and cousin did help with the health questions and we are still in contact. They were not participants in the other events. It was an interesting trip to say the least.
One of my grandfathers was a rapist, too. So far DNA tests have turned up two extra uncles. One of them looked like an identical twin of my dad. Oh yeah... rapist grandpa was a *Judge!*
@@aprilr.9956 Thanks! My parents died before I knew. Rapist grandpa was born in 1898 (I'm old, ha ha!) so my parents never knew. That goodness for that. He got to be the small town Judge by being a bully. He was cruel to all of his relatives. I learned the hard way to NOT tell my siblings and cousins on that side who tested and got the same results. They're in denial :-/
I'm adopted I did a DNA test with heritage I found my biological family my mother was 18 but my grandparents made her give me up my father was in the service and they got married and I have 3 younger siblings
Finding out your lineage is really fun and sometimes surprising. My dad's family is German and Swedish and my mom's is Scottish, Spanish and Irish. I don't have anything from Sweden or Germany and my younger sister has a lot of Swedish! I'm dark haired and she was blond. My brother has blue eyes and my parents were brown and hazel. It's a crap shoot this gene thing, but sometimes it works out like in my daughter's case where she got the best features from her daddy and me!
I did my DNA and also submitted one for my elderly mom. Turns out I had several new first cousins I NEVER knew about. And Mom suddenly had new nieces and nephews. Apparently Mom's dad was not her biological dad. My maternal grandfather wasn't that at all! I did figure out who Mom's real dad was. He passed a long time ago. His descendants want nothing to do with me or my mother. They are angry and in denial but none of us can do anything about something that happened 90 years ago. All I ever wanted from them was a pic of my real biological grandfather and maybe some medical info about him but they don't want to share. So there we are. Family but not family. I'm sorry to be related to these people who aren't nice.
You know just because someone is blood does not mean that you have to like them or love them. And I speak this from experience. So don't worry about it.
I’ve wanted to take a dna test to know more about where my mothers family is from since she was adopted. Does that test give names or just a vague insight of where your ancestors hail from??
My mom was adopted, so eventually, after my grandparents (mom's adoptive parents) passed, my sister did Ancestry.com because, as anyone might be, my sister was shocked at what came back in her results. My father was born in Italy and my mom was born in New York City. So, our whole lives we've thought that we were half Italian and half Welsh. Turns out my sister's results said she had some Turkish, French and, Greek from our dad's side and Welsh, French, British and, Native American from our moms side. Another crazy thing is, first- we found out my mom had something like 7 siblings all together, with her 2 biological brothers having passed away. My mom has a brother that was adopted like her. But she's got a sister and a deceased brother from her bio dad and 2 sisters and 2 brothers from her bio mother's side. My grandparents that adopted my mom were some of the most wonderful, amazing people I've ever met, and so I can see why my mom waited till they passed to find anything out about her bio parents. Now though, she's been in contact with her sisters from either side and she can't be happier. Now, my dad.... We always thought we, without a doubt, knew what my dad was and we knew all his family members.... Right? Nahhhh turns out, I have a half brother from 20 years before my siblings and I were born. My dad was dating a woman in Montana, where he was stationed after he left Vietnam. Well, apparently my half brother's mother told him when he was 5yo that his father died in Vietnam. His mother got married after my brother was born and she told him after 5 years that the man he thought was his dad, was not. Fast-forward to early 2022, and my brother opens a year old message from my sister. You can imagine his surprise when she told him that our dad is still alive. We've done Facebook video calls a few times and my mom talks to them a lot, even though she's technically his step mom. I think my dad is overwhelmed by the idea that he's got a son that he barely knew about and I have no clue as to what happened between my brother's mom and our dad that resulted in her telling my brother he was dead. There may also be another sibling of mine out there from my dad's side because when my sister was looking through all the people with familial DNA or whatever, she came across a woman that had more familial DNA than our half brother, but she's never reached back out to my sister. So, when my sister did her DNA test she never expected to find ANYONE who we didn't know about from our father's side, she expected that any unknown people would be on our mom's side. So it's been a pretty exciting 2 years. I would like to someday give my son a DNA test since his father passed away before he was born. Not only that, but my son's father didn't really know very much about his family. So I'd like to see what we find.
You're amazing! Thank you for sharing that. I had a conversation with my wife yesterday about whether or not DNA results were used for something other than catching killers. I was curious if any missing persons cases had been resolved. That would be a great story. But you answered my quandary, in a variety of different and disturbing ways. Yours were far more entertaining. Thank you sir! Side note, you've always had great camera presence. Since the first videos I've watched, for the last couple of years, you're sense of humor is incredible and you've always had a great balance of informative, entertainment, and personal. I really enjoy what you do. Hope you have a great week! Oh, and stay out of my head. We don't know each other like that! (Referring to my conversation aligning with your list) It's scary in there.
I loved listening to this vid. It's fascinating. I have to say, though, that I have to make one small correction. A chimara twin is not aborted; it's absorbed by the living twin. That's why the twin who was absorbed DNA was in the living twin. I think I recall that case was settled when DNA was extracted from the other half of the surviving town's body. When Google first appeared, I wanted to Google something but didn't have anything to Google. I finally entered my maternal great grandfather's name. Over the next few weeks, I was able to go back through all the generations from him back through the year 80 A.D....about 30 years after Jesus Christ Himself was on the earth! So, I found out all the countries I'm from through an "accidental" genealogy! I say accidental because I had NO IDEA I'd find something like that! SO, SO good to see you react to your heritage!
It's a great idea to get a DNA test before getting married. I found out,after I got married,that my ( then) husband and I were close genetically ( we tried to have children,but for some reason,could not get pregnant) turns out,HIS ( Maternal)grandmother,and MY ( Maternal) grandfather,were siblings. We Both went out separate ways,HE has three children by his second wife.I had a child by my second husband.fertility was not the issue for either of us.
This was really interesting and sometimes poignant, thanks for this list, Mike! And a huge thanks for sharing your big reveal, I think that was kinda brave. That you are 'what' you have thought you were is really great, I am glad you are happy with your new knowledge; maybe we're related [very] distantly, my maternal grandfather was a Earl of Ireland, tho the title was lost when his father came to America, fleeing famile and conflict waaaaay back. My father's family is supposedly pure Norweigian, actually Nord and Sami, and they insist I am a princess in Lappland [uh, sure?] and my maternal grandmother was pure Danish, related to the Royal Family there too. That part is true, as is the Earldom lost, tho I am also told I am allowed to call myself a Lady. Heh, Lady Baldevi!? I've not done DNA testing, for a few reasons I won't go into here. Maybe I'll try Heritage now, since it seems that governments are not allowed to search their findings...
I was also adopted, and learned my unknown heritage within the last 2 years. I used a different site however. I was pleasantly surprised by my results. Medical history records unknown.
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Yours is the first video where I am seriously contemplating clicking on the link. I was excited to hear the info :)
You have no idea how many, if any of these are true, especially anonymous Reddit posts.
I'm so excited for you!
Maybe you could do an episode, "25 things about me" and share all about your learned heritage. How exciting if you learn about new relations! 🤗😊
It was very brave of you to do this on air, because you could have had a nasty surprise. I'm so relieved for you that it is as you hoped it would be.
Being a Celt is cool, btw. Red hair is a common Celtic trait, not just Irish. My hair looked dark brown but (at least before the grey hit lol, this was some time ago!) it was all the other colours except any brown. Even now there's red (from ginger through to dark auburn), black and even a bunch of blonde shades, but particularly before the grey first turned up, if you looked at the single strands, none were brown.
Don't _just_ cling to "being Irish", you're a mix of the Goedelic and Brythonic (Gaelic & British) Celts, so you have a mix of full and wonderful cultures in you. All closely related, but distinctly different.
N E European blood is no real surprise because over the millennia, people from those regions ended up in Britain, so there's a chance that all of these ethnicities have come out of as few as one single generation! (A ready-mix of all the Celts meets up with your ready-made E European+, and there you go. But given the percentages, it's more probable that that line is a mix with a Celt at the point they all join up. Whatever, being a Celt gives you definite cool points lol!
I'm Welsh, my husband is English - probably Roman & Anglo-Saxon on his mother's side (blonde hair and she had the Roman nose - thank goodness for plastic surgery lol. I didn't see what the problem was, but she was dead set on it, so who am I to argue?) - and definitely Ashkenazi Jewish from Poland and Ukraine on his father's side (he's the archetypal E European Jew: tall, skinny, balding, has "the nose" 😆. He's gorgeous to me even after 36 years together 💞).
Our kids are quite the mix, and as I said, all of the mixes finally combined in one generation (hubby's great grandparents came from Europe during the 1890s pogroms, so it didn't take long for his father's heritage, Polish & Ukrainian, with a hint of German, to come into being. Just that extra generation or two).
Some lineages can take millennia to "coalesce", as it were, but it only need take one.
By the way, Mayo, Sligo (sl-eye-go) etc are Irish counties. Ever since the Celts colonised Ireland, there's been a lot of back & forth between our Irish cousins and us (us meaning Welsh & Scottish), so heaven only knows who, what, where, when (I won't say "how" 😉) you actually got each bit! 🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪
Sligo is SLY- GO
Galway GAWL-WAY - your pronunciation made me think you were trying to say Galloway.
County Mayo. It's an area. A county - like a state, but smaller scale and more unified with other counties, than states are with states.
So you are getting the areas where your genes are usually found, within Ireland.
my wife was the result of a "night before shipping out" for Viet Nam. for 53 years, she never knew her father. last year, she did the DNA test, and found her biological father. she contacted him, and amazingly, he was not only open to meeting her, flew half way across the country to meet the family. and they have been in close contact every since. sometimes it DOES work out.
It was in the back of my mind when my daughter suggested taking one.
Was I going to find out I have half vietnamese/Korean siblings...was there going to be aunts or uncles or cousins from when my grandfather was in WW2?
I really wonder how many half siblings out there that were conceived during war time are out there.
It's not a surprise to anyone that so many 'secret' babies were born due to a war. It's quite natural and it's only our stubborn and silly religious beliefs that make such births 'secrets'. It should never have been that way. Babies are a gift no matter how they were conceived. Although I can't imagine the pain of having a child due to a criminal offence, if you know what I mean. That is also more common than we would like to admit. A horrible situation for both mother and child. But, if people were more accepting and loving towards each other, there would be no shame in those births either.
Trying to help my half-brother with this same scenario, but have hit so many bricks, we came up with 4 family names that gave the closest matches, but no one msgs back =(
I was a result of coming home from Vietnam. I'm 50 yrs old and just found out 2 yrs ago who my real father was and he died 1977 so I suppose ut was never meant to be for him and I.
@@Yosetime Fully agree with you. It's criminal to separate mothers from their babies like certain institutions do. I have only found one case of illegitimacy in my family in the last 300 years.Thankully she was brought up with a very loving family,which I can't find any evidence of being related to the child's Mother's family. Investigation ongoing with search do he biological father.She was born in the 1860s.
Found out I have Jewish blood on my Dad’s side. Turns out, my great-grandma (who we always assumed was Polish) was a miracle. Her tiny hamlet southeast of Warsaw had running issues with Russia, and military interaction was common. One day, the Red army rolled into town & wiped out every living soul. Her mom had the foresight to hide my great-grandma in a wall before the attack, and was the sole survivor. A day or two later, neighbors came to see what/ who might be left. A Polish lady found her in her hiding place, adopted her, & brought her to America, where she grew up & eventually met her husband (full Polish). Without her mother’s loving sacrifice, I wouldn’t exist!
Jewish ? Like which one of 14 tribes...black Ines white onda turkic semitic or?
That's a BADASS story, your great grandma freaking RULES 🙌🏻
I had always hoped that I had been switched at birth because my family sucks. Several years ago I had two DNA tests done by two different companies. Even though I discovered a LOT of ancestors I never knew about, sadly, my parents were my real parents and my siblings are my real siblings. Dammit.
I feel ya
I too felt this sadness I was my bio father's child. I was hoping my mom had stepped out. He's not a good man. Not the worst but loves his whiskey.
Yeah I sometimes envy my adopted cousin if anything due to him being able to say he's not genetically related to any of these weirdos
you made me laugh!
Hard same. Since my parents weren’t married until I was an adult, I thought at least maybe one wasn’t my actual parent. No such luck!
Mike finding out his Family history was honestly one of the purest things I have seen in awhile
So happy for you Mike!! 🍀🍀🍀
Thank you so much ☘️🇮🇪🍀
My dad, who's in his 70s, discovered about 5 years ago that his dad was not actually his father. My niece is very interested in researching her ancestry, so the whole family did dna tests to help her in her research. She discovered that my dad was not blood related to any relatives from his dad's side. We figured out the whole story eventually. From the point of view of my dad's dad who raised him, he went away to war (WW2), came back to find his wife pregnant by another man. Baby is born and his wife dies from childbirth complications. He registers the birth, naming himself as father, remarries, and raises my dad as his own, never once mentioning that they were not blood related. My dad grew up with one step brother only, but we discovered he actually has 2 half brothers and 2 half sisters (with attached families) from his biological father.
Respect to your dads dad for doing that 👏 🙌
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ABSOLUTELY.
Some say the real father is who raises u! So true in this case!
What a wonderful man!
That’s what a “real” father does
I met a lady in college in 1987. We hooked up for about a week , then went our separate ways. On September 4th, 2021, I got a call that I have a daughter. We connected, and it feels wonderful. I missed out on her childhood, but I'm looking forward to the future. Her mom is my friend as well. This turned out awesome. I ❤️ my daughter.
We gave our daughter and son-in-law DNA tests as a present for Christmas one year. His mom is adopted and when he was browsing his results he was able to get a line on her bio mom. Needless to say he was able to get enough information to be able to reunite his mother with her bio mom and siblings. Her mom has since passed away but she was able to take care of her for a couple of years. Pretty cool stuff.
2 years ago my daughter convinced me to do ancestry DNA. long story short I found my birth family. I have 2 sisters and a huge clan of relatives. I also found that I am so white I’m reflective. 😅. Congrats on your journey…it’s only just begun.
That is awesome!
I didn't take a DNA test but, my whole family thought we were Irish until, while tracing our genealogy, my Aunt went to Ireland for further study. She found out that the family she had been tracing was not our family at all. While they had the same last name and they were Irish, our family is actually Scottish.
Thought my family was from the uk turns out we’re scandivian and German lol
@@michaelkeeping8040 It's funny how things work out sometimes.
To be fair, the family could have originally been from Ireland, there was a great deal of immigration to Scotland from Ireland in the last few centuries.
Thought we had Welsh heritage with Italian roots, turns out I have strong Irish heritage with 2% italian
Trace it back a few more generations and it could end up being the same family.
I took a DNA test and discovered an aunt that nobody knew about! My mom had grown up with only brothers, never knowing she had an older sister somewhere. My grandfather was in Panama for a while during WWII and had a relationship with a woman there, of which my aunt was the result. She ended up getting adopted by a family in the U.S. after the war. We connected and hope to meet later this year! As for heritage, I was surprised to learn I'm mostly of Norwegian descent. I figured I was mostly Irish and German based on family stories. I also was happy to learn I have some DNA from Senegal, as well as Egypt and Mongolia! I look about as white as mayo thanks to Norway lol
After my parents got divorced, my mother remarried in ‘87, giving me three younger step-siblings, whom I always thought of as my brothers and sister.
After taking a DNA test about 3 years ago, I found out that I had a half-sister by my father, who was born a few years after my parents’ divorce.
The real shocker in this situation was that I already knew her well. She married one of my step-brothers and they had three children together, whom I had always thought of as my nephews and my niece. As it turned out, they really were. 😂
What I have learned from this experience is: 1) Truth is stranger than fiction, 2) Life can be spooky sometimes, and 3) God has a funny sense of humor. 🤷🏻♀️
I took a DNA test in order to find out who my father's biological father was.
My grandmother who was a Bible thumping, down on unwed mothers type person was not forthcoming about who my biological grandfather was ,but it was known that my Dad had been born out of wedlock.
See my mother's sister, my aunt knew all about my Paternal gmother being what today is called The town bicycle ( meaning everyone got to ride 😆)
The test helped me discover my Dads father and that all but 2 of my grandmother's 7 children had different fathers.
Funny thing is my father was the only one born before my grandmother got married.
🤔 makes me wonder why the hypocrisy and extreme religious fervor, maybe she was trying to atone for "sins" could never admitted to committing
That’s EXACTLY what she was doing.
This is just indicative of those who ate pointing fingers and condemning the loudest are often times guilty of what they're accusing others of, I've seen this time and time again, including my own batshit crazy horrible sociopathic sister
You know what they say....the one who notices the smell first is the one who farted!!
In my opinion, organized religion has done way more bad than it has good. I don't think it was meant to be that way. But power, greed, and money seeped it's way into religion a very long time ago and now just about all religion is a farce. Nowadays it's safer just to pray at home to whatever or whoever inspires you and follow your gut. Make that your religion. Stay away from churches of all kinds.
@@debbylou5729 She literally kept having affairs and babies by other men after she was married. Religion aside, that's alot of damage to a marital relationship and to your kids of many fathers. If she didn't want to be married and have children with her husband she could have chosen a different path. At the very least, don't go around judging others with your bible thumping if you're the one doing the deed. It's deceptive. She had other choices.
Hey mike , so check this out . My sister and myself are also adopted ,she had a kid and put him up for adoption as well . I can’t remember exactly how she found out but her son that was adopted lives right next door to my aunt and uncle’s house!! My sister and the rest of my family still has a relationship with that whole family and my sister sees her kid often .
I'm adopted as well. I used ancestry dna in 2018. I found a full blood brother who was also adopted. He have a close relationship now. Love him dearly.
My daughter did a DNA test and found a first degree relative. After some investigation we found the son that my son fathered when he was 16. It was a joyful reunion and they are making up for lost time
I'm adopted too, I have such a sense of loss of not knowing who I am. Haven't had the money to get the DNA test yet.
My mother-in-law always accused her husband of cheating on her. He would ignore her or have ugly comments. After they both died, dna tests became popular. My sister-in-law was notified of a dna match. They told her she had a half brother. Sure enough. They have a half brother out there. He knew all about them, that his father was married, it was so unnerving. She met him, he is nice, but that was all. So strange.
I was adopted.
I found my birth mother basically breaking a lot of rules back in the 90's before the internet. Then, when I found her, she wanted nothing to do with me, and told me I was the only child she ever had. Would never say who my father was.
Fast forward to the late 2010's when DNA was affordable. I took the test and found her, AND two brothers. Boy, were they surprised. Come to find out, they had been adopting children and then find out their mother put up a child for adoption. Ya, didn't go well. But I did gain one brother who likes me, the other hates me for me taking that test.
Maybe she had her reasons for not telling you who he is. I'm sorry
Thank you for sharing your adoption and DNA test story with us. Great to hear your adoptive family is fabulous.
Coincidentally, just today (after saving this to watch later), I found out about 2 half sisters via another DNA company. I have known officially (but always suspected) for 14 years that the family I grew up wasn’t my biological family. I knew the names on the birth certificate but nothing else. Prior to today it was only distant cousins on my profile. Today a sister contacted me and then passed my contact info on to the second half sister. There was also a half brother that passed away.
What timing. But sorry about your loss.
We had cousins given up in the 60's who found us through a DNA test. My aunt who was their mother passed as well as 2 of her siblings and my grandparents. So everyone who would have known about them were gone. We weren't supposed to know about them but heard through a different source, so it wasn't a total surprise but it was a good one. I thought we would never know anything about them at all.
My natural father left when I was a newborn and my mother remarried.The guy she remarried adopted me, and I wasn't told any of this until I was in high school in the 80s. Later on, through social media, I found out that I had two half-brothers and a half-sister from when my natural father remarried. Fast-forward to about 2020, I decided to take a DNA test (sorry for your sponsor, but it was through Ancestry). What I found out through those results is that I had yet another half-sister. She is older than me and that affair happened before even my mother and natural father were together. She had no idea who her natural father was because her mother never told her, AND he had no idea he had this daughter because the mother never told him either. The weird part is that we all live in the same small-ish city and have all of our lives- meaning we've likely came across each other over the years without realizing it. What's even weirder is my grandmother on my mother's side went through almost the same scenario, which has made studying my family tree interesting. MORAL OF THE STORY: don't lie to your kids- you never know what kind of accessible technology will be available to them in the future!
I took a DNA test just to confirm what I already knew. As a kids in school we had an assignment to trace our family tree. (about the time Roots the mini series came out)
My family is one who has a family blanket, where each generation adds a piece of cloth to the blanket. Ours dates back well over 150yrs back to slavery.
So there were no surprises, 90%African American, small amount 8% Native American w/ 2% European. German to be exact. Everything I knew was confirmed.
My wife took one w/o any surprises either she's 70% African American, 10% Native American, 19% Brazilian and 1% European. Everything she already knew.
No surprises w/ our kids were a blended family, she had 2 girls an I had twin boys when we met 20yrs ago. We later on adopted each other's kids. That was 18yrs ago, were one big happy family the kids are grown up doing very well all in their early and mid 20s.
Aww it's almost like a modern day Brady Bunch where she has the girls and you have the same number of boys and adopted each others kids.
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When you love someone and want them to be in your life you have to love their kids too or it's a useless relationship.(married 18yrs) Plus we both had piece of, well you know ex's, that give up their parental rights.
Fellow adoptee here, Mike. Great video! I was super happy that my family tree was NOT a straight stick. My family had issues so I was worried about that.
Ahhh so Lydia Fairchild's case definitely has me thinking. You see in May 1983 my parents conceived twins....in January 1984 my mum gave birth to me and me only. My twin was absorbed early-mid 2nd trimester. I have never required DNA testing before, but now I'm thinking "am I the biological mother of my 3 children?" I might just need to arrange some DNA tests.
So you know, a lot of times the twin is absorbed by the mother's body, not the other twin. In L.F's case her own body absorbed the twin.
There have been more cases found like hers because of DNA testing. One mom lost her 4 kids until a social worker was there when the 5th was born to prove she was a chimera.
A down side of the health information MyHeritage, 23&Me, etc offer is that unless you live in the US where the government doesn’t care, or any country this sort of info is permitted to be provided, you miss out. Here in Australia, it is still considered “Under review”, and many insurance companies recommend avoiding the health portion when they are permitted in Australia, as it could give the insurance providers the right to increase premiums or even refuse membership if it is found you have a DNA high risk of something.
Yup, that was my first reason for not ever wanting to do a DNA test years ago when they first came out. Insurance companies wield too much power in the U.S.
Hello from a fellow celt! I'm Welsh and my dad and brother also have the red in their beards.
Really enjoyed watching you find out your DNA results.
Awesome! Thank you!
@@list25 Wait a minute, I thought this channel became a pet or something of that nature channel??? I enjoyed watching list 25 and was saddened when it was cancelled or something like that, I'm a bit confused.
I live in England, I'm also Irish, Scottish and Welsh no red in my beard though just grey now as a 60 year old woman! 😂 best wishes all x
My nephew has red in his beard
That was such a smooth ass ad transition mike, I’m not even upset, this is so cool bc I never knew you were adopted dude!
Indeed I was!
How awesome for you to share such a huge moment with the world!
Thank you!
I have a close friend who she thought was her father, who had passed away wasn't after a DNA test. She confronted her mother and her mother freaked out. She found her real biological father and they have a good relationship along with three new half sisters.
Keep at it Mike, loved your content for years now.
I appreciate that!
Cool vid! I was raised by my mom's family and always knew I was Lithuanian, English and French-Canadian on that side. I was very surprised to find Scotland and Ireland in my genes, since no one in my family had red hair! I was led to believe that my dad's family was Spanish. DNA test proved otherwise. I have DNA from Indigenous Americas: Mexico, with roots in the Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas regions. Also, 1% Cameroon, Congo and West Bantu people. I guess my ancestors really got around!
The red hair Irish/Scottish thing is a bit of a myth. Many Scots have huge amounts of Scandinavian dna, people from the south of Ireland - like those from South Wales - have a lot of Spanish dna!
Actually the original Irish and Scottish had dark features/ hair like Spanish. Blonde and red hair from danish or Norway Vikings etc that raided and stayed.
I grew up being told my ancestry was Scandinavian and German/French. My DNA came back 92% Scandinavian, 6% England & NW Europe and 2% Germanic Europe. I am so white, I glow.
That was fun. First time visiting your channel. I just loved watching your reaction to your own DNA results: especially when you hugged your computer to your chest smiling all the while. So wonderful to see a person truly happy to be themselves! 🎉💖
Thank you so much!!
I loved this video, thanks for sharing your results with us!
You are so welcome!
My family took a DNA test a few years ago. My mom is adopted. Through the test we discovered a first cousin on my mom's side. That was cool.
Being adopted at basically birth, I feel you when it comes to "wondering the what ifs" but it kinda opens your eyes alot to honestly.. you really understand blood doesn't make family.
That was awesome to watch. It was cool to see the reveal at the end. Wish you could do more things like this.
I knew this would be a good video, fascinating, thanks Mike from Mike.
Glad you enjoyed it
Mike, my Irish friend the colour green suits you. My DNA shows me that I am Irish from Galway on my mothers side and Viking from my fathers side Hence the name Yorke from the city of York, England. Jorvik was the name given to the settlement by the Viking invaders.........Plus i have Spanish DNA from a shipwrecked Sailor washed up on the east shores of Ireland after his Galleon tried to flee back to Spain in a storm after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. So this is way I can drink copious amounts of the 'Black Stuff'...never loose a Hammer,....but get totally lost in a light rain shower with no sense of direction.
Good for you! Thanks for sharing with us! That was fun!
Of course!
You reactions are great, Mike! Mayo and the others are counties in Ireland. I need to take a DNA test soon!
Hello from a fellow Scot, I'm so happy for you finding out your heritage 🥰
Hello!!! I am curious as to how much percentage is Scottish versus Irish but that map seems to have me in County Mayo
This might be the first time I actually use any of the sponsors of literally any videos
The view of my mother would not be drastically altered if I found out my sisters and I had different fathers
My mom’s awesome
I thank God she’s still here to guilt trip me at 80
God bless my mom
I am currently looking for my biological father's family for medical reasons and I've taken some DNA test and have a ancestry tree and hon red hair isn't as common in Ireland as you'd think the red is actually left over from the Viking days and the Vikings landed in Ireland and how you have redheads in Ireland and I got more than I expected in my tests I'm native American ( Cherokee) and Irish German and other I even have Sephardic and gypsy and Bulgarian and we even found Persian my dad's half Celtic mutt and native American but mom is the one with the cultural DNA crazy quilt and I love my rich heritage and I never knew when I was a kid I started my genealogy and DNA journey about 20 years ago..and good luck with your journey and have fun
Took a DNA test a few years after my Mom passed but she would have been vindicated on my Father's identity, she was always honest with me on his identity but he said I wasn't his and never had contact... We now send msg. on birthdays.
I’m just now seeing you’re back after checking old vids. Welcome 🎉
Welcome back to you too!
I found out last year that not only am I a Hatfield which I knew but I am also a McCoy
I could trace my father's family all the way back to a small German village in the 1700's. I submitted a sample to Ancestry and it turns out I haven't a drop of German in me. I am 75% British with much of the rest in the Norwegian, Swedish, Switzerland areas. There had been rumors all my life. The rumors were confirmed. It wasn't as much of a surprise as it was a relief to know for certain. The real surprise came when my youngest daughter submitted her DNA to the site. Turns out my daughter's father is a relative of mine. I've not gone back since to figure out how closely we are related (not half siblings, at least I don't think so.) I'm not sure I want to know.
What I’ve found out that only some parts of the DNA shows up, not exact. I also have paperwork trail from Germany, but I don’t show any in my resultsScandinavians traveled a lot. My sister shows the German.
You’re probably distantly related, especially if your families have stayed in the same area.
@@robinanderson8211 That's what I'm telling myself, lol. My DNA did not match any of my father's family who also took the test. None of their names appeared as a DNA match.
@@rridderbusch518 FYI the "real" father is the one who raised her. A birth father is not at all the same thing.
I've been told I'm Irish/Welsh. I'm Australian born, and 90% of my immediate family are no longer alive. I have a brother and some 1st cousins that are still alive.
It would be interesting to find out about my heritage 🙂
I was adopted too. Upon digging, as an adult, because of some health issues my son had. I discovered that I was actually raised by my maternal grandparents. I also learned the name and ethnicity of my biological father.
I like all of your content and I enjoyed seeing your reaction to the dna results
How very brave of you to reveal live. Just love that you are back. PS Don't knock out boys. We love our Phillies ❤❤❤
I’ve done my DNA a couple of times with very similar results. One company updates as technology changes and databases are expanded and updated. It’s always fascinated me. I have 2 adopted brothers. I am the only girl, only biological child and the youngest. But because of my brothers, I’ve been intrigued by dna and ancestry research. So this is great!❤ I’m 98% Irish and English, then the rest is French,Swiss, and Finnish. So I too am white…LOL…😆..my irl last name is an English surname from the Sussex area, aka South Saxons. 👍🏻
I used 23 and Me's DNA test and found out I'm mostly European. My results have evolved over the years. I swear in the beginning I was more British than German. I also used to be 100% European and now I'm not. I just find it all interesting. I did it with my sister and it's interesting how similar but different our DNA is.
I am the eldest of 8 children none of whom I have ever personally met because I was adopted out. I used an investigator and DNA. Given the sad position my sibs found themselves in I was the lucky one. Thank goodness I was given up. Mayo is the county.
My husband discovered an older brother who was born before his oldest known sibling was. They were both born in the same year. He is a lovely man whom we have grown really fond of. It turns out that he and my oldest brother in law belonged to the same organization, attended many functions at the same time. They only knew each others first name and didn't realize they were brothers. We only found this brother after my husbands oldest known brother passed. They would have been great friends had they known.
I already know my Heritage , Irish, Scottish, English / British, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Cherokee Indian , but I use to not know what I'am. ⚾🇺🇸🗽🦅🦃🦅
Fascinating stories, thank you. I like the Irish tune 'Banish Misfortune'.
Including your DNA results was so cool. I've always wanted to try getting tested but I'm afraid of what they do with our DNA.
What on earth do you think they could do
Me too. Although my sister had hers tested.
Oh, please, if they want your dna, they already have it. The Gov is anyone dies not need a third-party company to get your dna. You drop your dna everywhere you go.. and what exactly are thy going to do to your dna??? Torture it??
I'm paranoid about what they could do with it, too; that's the last thing I need to happen... 😓
@@jcfreak4ever1 again... What exactly do you think someone can do?
I was adopted too! Found my biomom before we did a DNA test. Turns out that my heritage is ALSO the nations where my adopted family is from, right down to the counties shown.
Congrats on your results! I took a DNA test and I am part British and Irish and a tiny part Polish. Now husband calls me pollock.
So rude ! You and your husband lack some intelligence for you to share this online, how pathetic 😒
Hi from Tampa. I have known my birthmother for years, but my birthfather was a mystery. I took several DNA tests, including MH. Found who he is (deceased) but my shock was after thinking I was only German my whole life, my father’s family fought in all the American wars and were in Colonial America since the 1600s. #surprise
I found out through 23andme that my dad wasn't my biodad. I wasn't really affected by the results becuase both my parents are trash and have no interest in meeting biodad. BuT that being said, it did give me an interest in genealogy and I helped multiple people trace their results to find thier bioparents (adoption) or father. It was really fulfilling. I stopped doing it a year or so ago becuase i obsessed and that's not healthy considering I have 4 kids to raise haha
4:20 reminds me of the story of the man who, when he told his father about every girl he wanted to marry, his Dad said, "you can't. She's your half sister. When i was a teenager, I had a bike and got around a bit". Completely distraught he eventually revealed this to his mother, who said "You marry whoever you want to Son. He's not your father anyway".
Everytime I hear that ,I laugh.
20 of my friends did DNA tests. He found his bio parents who got married several years after he was born. He has met them, and they are great people. He found out he has a full sister and brother and he had actually met his sister. His partner discovered the man who raised her was not her bio father, her mother had a fling with a traveling rodeo bronc rider who evidently spread his seed far and wide. So far, she has found 7 half-siblings and that is only those who have taken DNA tests.
Found out at age 38 that my bio father was not my mom's husband and the person I called dad my whole life through one of these tests. My mom told no one... Not even her husband that I wasn't his. Turns out she was seeing a chiropractor who was having affairs with a bunch of his married patients. I have a ton of half siblings and I reached out to many of them when I discovered the news. My heritage changed drastically as well. Very bizzare experience.
I'm thrilled I found ur channel again
Welcome back.
This is crazy. Heritage did my DNA. I have 7 sibs. I just found them after looking for over 40yrs. Ty
Im unsure about doing a dna test/geneology, mostly because i know my father's side is likely to be messed up for a few generations and incredibly hard to trace.
So im first generation Australian on my dads side (mum's side is very well researched up to mum's generation so no real shocks there, both sides maternally go back 5-6 generations to Britain and Ireland). Growing up i knew my dad emigrated from Poland as a child in the 60s, and was told that babcia (my paternal grandmother) was technically my great grandmother who had adopted her grandson because her daughter was unfit to be a mother. This narrative is now in question however as more recently i have heard that my dad's "adoption" was a cover for my grandmother having a child at "an advanced age" (by which i mean late 30s-early 40s). I've also been told that the man i knew as my paternal grandfather was a step parent who was also originally from Poland, but emigrated separately after ww2 and met here in aus, and that he never went back to Europe after the war due to ptsd (he was a prisoner of war). And apparently my paternal grandmother was also (supposedly) of Jewish ancestry (for those following along she was a young Jewish woman from Poland during ww2. I would be very surprised if any of the paperwork still existed for me to trace).
You now have a new fan. I enjoy your delivery and your topics. Thanks.
Welcome aboard!
I did my DNA kit through MyHeritage and then my card was flagged for fraud! lol (I got it taken care of) I haven't gotten my results yet, but I already have a vast amount of information from my mom's paternal grandmother's mother's side, going back to the 1700s or so. I also have my great grandmother's original baptismal certificate in German from 1901.
That made me smile so much watching you learn about your background. Such a moment of just pure joy!
When I got my DNA test results back from two different companies they were both pretty much the same. I discovered that I am mostly Scottish, some Irish and British. I too love mayo and in fact, I was just eating a hamburger and dipping my fries into mayonnaise. Cheers!
Fries in mayo is the best
@@list25 It really is!
THE MAYO IN HIS DNA RESULTS IS A COUNTY. SO IS SLIGO, WHICH HE MENTIONED TOO.
I did Ancestry in 2018 to see if I was Native American. Not a drop. But I found two half siblings from a one night stand and years later when Dad was stationed in Korea. My half brother took his DNA test weeks before me! We met a few months later and immediately bonded. I'm also looking forward to meeting my half sister in a few months. Yes, it was a huge shock, but I'm thrilled to have new siblings. My two full sisters, not so much. They want nothing to do with the new sibs.
The Native American thing is a problematic thing. Unless you have Native ancestry from the far southwest, it will turn up nothing. Ancestry doesn't have enough DNA data on other tribes in the US to compare to. So it doesn't mean you don't have Native American ancestry, just that they can't detect it. They are adding data all the time though. So you never know when your results might change. Mine have a couple of times.
I found the same issue, but I'm a member of a tribe and have the genealogical documents to back it up.
I have a cousin who is an expert in DNA genealogy and she is related to me on countless lines (mostly Acadian, so endogamy family). She has verified many indigenous in my ancestors, but I have 0%. It’s truly amazing when I have matches who have a small percentage, even my first cousins and I am related to both of their parents.
I'm not adopted but I took a DNA test basically for shits and giggles, and found out that I am as white as snow basically. I'm mostly German with 26%, which I would NOT have expected, but it makes sense, Swedish and Danish with 25%, Italian (obviously) with 18%, Irish with 12%, Scottish with 9%, Nordic with 7%, Russian (somehow) with 2%, and Finnish with 1%. I know nobody cares but you're welcome for my ancestry breakdown lol.
I care! Thanks for sharing
@@list25 np Mike lol
I'm a mixture of Italian, Norwegian and English. What's curious is that my two brothers clearly have different mixes. I am the most Italian. I looked totally Italian as a kid, and am very close to my Italian relatives, speak Italian, and have lived there a couple of times. My older brother is the Norwegian one and my younger brother the English one. In terms of percentages I am more Scandinavian than Italian, but that's not my experience of it. When my cousin Stefano's wife first met me she said "You could be my husband's brother, and you are such a Giglli." I asked "In what way?" "You know, high-strung, intellectual, elitist." Oh yeah.
My half sister did one and found out that Tom Felton the actor from Harry Potter is a distant cousin. And I think that's pretty cool.
I forgot this channel existed, UA-cam never notified me
Love the channel still though 💪
same
Welcome back!
Mike, you and I could be related as I am also Irish, Scottish and Welch and in my younger days also had red in my beard. We should talk as I would get one of these kits and may very well in the future but am unable to afford it at this time. I am in the process of bringing my fiancé to this country. Wish me luck and hope to talk to you soon cousin. I knew there was a reason I always liked you and was upset when you were not on List 25 for awhile, glad you are back. 🤩
I took Ancestry DNA test and found I'm 76 percent Jewish in Central and Eastern Europe , 20 percent Swedish and Danish, 3 percent Welsh, 1 percent Norweigan .... I am a practicing Conservative American Jew with a Danish born father and Mom is first generation born American with parents who were born in Lithuania and Poland.
There is no Jewish DNA
Wow, most Ashkenazi Jews are in the 90s, often high 90s, as Jews because until recently they didn't tend to marry outside of their group. 76% is equivalent of a grandparent or 2 great-grandparents who weren't of Ashkenazi Jewish descent
I came because of the content, but I just have to comment my 11-year-old would be your instant best friend as he also loves Tampa Bay. We are all the way in Idaho so he is a man on an island.
This is my first experience with your page, and I love it! I’m going to look into more of your content!
Mike, I want to take this opportunity to officially welcome you to your Irish family . This country would be so proud to call you one of our own. Mayo is one of the wildest most beautiful Counties in the country. Look up Westport. Here’s wishing you all the best, hope we see you over here someday. Love from Ireland ❤🇮🇪☘️
To add when you once divulge that you suffer from psoriasis I went oh he’s Irish. Cause Ireland holds the record for the highest cases of it in the entire world.
Wait, really???
@@list25 Really. Yes. I’m going to ask around for you for the cure cause we’ve the best specialists on psoriasis here cause it’s so prolific.
My son, over a decade ago, took a DNA test. When he got a call and and it was a rather excited person from the DNA Company. She went on to tell him, that he had a 25% match in the mother DNA, to a famous queen.... frequently referee to as the headless queen.
Glad you found out what you wanted to know. My mother was adopted, & would've killed to be able to do this. She died 15 years ago, & it was not possible. I'd love to, but I'd never be able to afford it.
A lot of DNA kits do tend to have sales every now and again
@@list25 I know, my mother in law did that, but even at a discount I will never be able to, but thanks.
Fun video. First time watching your channel. You do a nice job.
Was great watching you look through your results there. & Mayo is a county in Ireland 😄
That was the word I was looking for LoL but I couldn't think of it. I was just so excited
@@list25 from the west of Ireland, I live in limerick not far from Galway, those areas are beautiful you should visit and do the Atlantic way tour, it would be a nice welcome home tour
I read that as "Do the American tour" and I was like, do us Americans get put on a different tour?? Are we that obnoxious??? LoL
@@list25 honestly a lot of Americans do the tour lol, highly recommended if you do decide to visit.
You should visit the emerald island. Its a beautiful corner of the world. The people are just delightful too
I was raised in a dominantly white but proudly mixed family. My mother raised me as the youngest of four children. The other three had the same father but I was never told anything about mine. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins were all either in the dark about who he was or sworn to secrecy. I would ask questions, and they would change the subject. I am in my 30's now and I have a family of my own. Due to health reasons, I went to ancestry and took a DNA test. While waiting for results, one of my uncles whispered to me a name. I got my results. I took a trip to meet the family. Two, (An Aunt and a cousin) were amazing. The father turned out to be a former KKK member. I never got the chance to meet him or my siblings. It turned out that he had raped my mother who was working as a nanny in his home. I was in that state for a week learning about that family. The siblings refused to meet me.
Well that was a rollercoaster
@@list25 Agreed. The aunt and cousin did help with the health questions and we are still in contact. They were not participants in the other events. It was an interesting trip to say the least.
One of my grandfathers was a rapist, too. So far DNA tests have turned up two extra uncles. One of them looked like an identical twin of my dad. Oh yeah... rapist grandpa was a *Judge!*
@@rridderbusch518 Wow! The criteria for a judgr jis a bit stricter now thank goodness. I hope that your family is taking it well.
@@aprilr.9956 Thanks! My parents died before I knew. Rapist grandpa was born in 1898 (I'm old, ha ha!) so my parents never knew. That goodness for that. He got to be the small town Judge by being a bully. He was cruel to all of his relatives. I learned the hard way to NOT tell my siblings and cousins on that side who tested and got the same results. They're in denial :-/
I'm adopted I did a DNA test with heritage I found my biological family my mother was 18 but my grandparents made her give me up my father was in the service and they got married and I have 3 younger siblings
Finding out your lineage is really fun and sometimes surprising. My dad's family is German and Swedish and my mom's is Scottish, Spanish and Irish. I don't have anything from Sweden or Germany and my younger sister has a lot of Swedish! I'm dark haired and she was blond. My brother has blue eyes and my parents were brown and hazel. It's a crap shoot this gene thing, but sometimes it works out like in my daughter's case where she got the best features from her daddy and me!
I did my DNA and also submitted one for my elderly mom. Turns out I had several new first cousins I NEVER knew about. And Mom suddenly had new nieces and nephews. Apparently Mom's dad was not her biological dad. My maternal grandfather wasn't that at all! I did figure out who Mom's real dad was. He passed a long time ago. His descendants want nothing to do with me or my mother. They are angry and in denial but none of us can do anything about something that happened 90 years ago. All I ever wanted from them was a pic of my real biological grandfather and maybe some medical info about him but they don't want to share. So there we are. Family but not family. I'm sorry to be related to these people who aren't nice.
You know just because someone is blood does not mean that you have to like them or love them. And I speak this from experience. So don't worry about it.
I’ve wanted to take a dna test to know more about where my mothers family is from since she was adopted. Does that test give names or just a vague insight of where your ancestors hail from??
My mom was adopted, so eventually, after my grandparents (mom's adoptive parents) passed, my sister did Ancestry.com because, as anyone might be, my sister was shocked at what came back in her results. My father was born in Italy and my mom was born in New York City.
So, our whole lives we've thought that we were half Italian and half Welsh. Turns out my sister's results said she had some Turkish, French and, Greek from our dad's side and Welsh, French, British and, Native American from our moms side.
Another crazy thing is, first- we found out my mom had something like 7 siblings all together, with her 2 biological brothers having passed away. My mom has a brother that was adopted like her. But she's got a sister and a deceased brother from her bio dad and 2 sisters and 2 brothers from her bio mother's side.
My grandparents that adopted my mom were some of the most wonderful, amazing people I've ever met, and so I can see why my mom waited till they passed to find anything out about her bio parents. Now though, she's been in contact with her sisters from either side and she can't be happier.
Now, my dad.... We always thought we, without a doubt, knew what my dad was and we knew all his family members.... Right? Nahhhh turns out, I have a half brother from 20 years before my siblings and I were born. My dad was dating a woman in Montana, where he was stationed after he left Vietnam. Well, apparently my half brother's mother told him when he was 5yo that his father died in Vietnam. His mother got married after my brother was born and she told him after 5 years that the man he thought was his dad, was not.
Fast-forward to early 2022, and my brother opens a year old message from my sister. You can imagine his surprise when she told him that our dad is still alive.
We've done Facebook video calls a few times and my mom talks to them a lot, even though she's technically his step mom. I think my dad is overwhelmed by the idea that he's got a son that he barely knew about and I have no clue as to what happened between my brother's mom and our dad that resulted in her telling my brother he was dead.
There may also be another sibling of mine out there from my dad's side because when my sister was looking through all the people with familial DNA or whatever, she came across a woman that had more familial DNA than our half brother, but she's never reached back out to my sister.
So, when my sister did her DNA test she never expected to find ANYONE who we didn't know about from our father's side, she expected that any unknown people would be on our mom's side. So it's been a pretty exciting 2 years.
I would like to someday give my son a DNA test since his father passed away before he was born. Not only that, but my son's father didn't really know very much about his family. So I'd like to see what we find.
You're amazing! Thank you for sharing that. I had a conversation with my wife yesterday about whether or not DNA results were used for something other than catching killers. I was curious if any missing persons cases had been resolved. That would be a great story. But you answered my quandary, in a variety of different and disturbing ways. Yours were far more entertaining. Thank you sir! Side note, you've always had great camera presence. Since the first videos I've watched, for the last couple of years, you're sense of humor is incredible and you've always had a great balance of informative, entertainment, and personal. I really enjoy what you do. Hope you have a great week! Oh, and stay out of my head. We don't know each other like that! (Referring to my conversation aligning with your list) It's scary in there.
I loved listening to this vid. It's fascinating. I have to say, though, that I have to make one small correction. A chimara twin is not aborted; it's absorbed by the living twin. That's why the twin who was absorbed DNA was in the living twin. I think I recall that case was settled when DNA was extracted from the other half of the surviving town's body.
When Google first appeared, I wanted to Google something but didn't have anything to Google. I finally entered my maternal great grandfather's name. Over the next few weeks, I was able to go back through all the generations from him back through the year 80 A.D....about 30 years after Jesus Christ Himself was on the earth! So, I found out all the countries I'm from through an "accidental" genealogy! I say accidental because I had NO IDEA I'd find something like that!
SO, SO good to see you react to your heritage!
It's a great idea to get a DNA test before getting married. I found out,after I got married,that my ( then) husband and I were close genetically ( we tried to have children,but for some reason,could not get pregnant) turns out,HIS ( Maternal)grandmother,and MY ( Maternal) grandfather,were siblings.
We Both went out separate ways,HE has three children by his second wife.I had a child by my second husband.fertility was not the issue for either of us.
This was really interesting and sometimes poignant, thanks for this list, Mike!
And a huge thanks for sharing your big reveal, I think that was kinda brave. That you are 'what' you have thought you were is really great, I am glad you are happy with your new knowledge; maybe we're related [very] distantly, my maternal grandfather was a Earl of Ireland, tho the title was lost when his father came to America, fleeing famile and conflict waaaaay back. My father's family is supposedly pure Norweigian, actually Nord and Sami, and they insist I am a princess in Lappland [uh, sure?] and my maternal grandmother was pure Danish, related to the Royal Family there too. That part is true, as is the Earldom lost, tho I am also told I am allowed to call myself a Lady. Heh, Lady Baldevi!?
I've not done DNA testing, for a few reasons I won't go into here. Maybe I'll try Heritage now, since it seems that governments are not allowed to search their findings...
I was also adopted, and learned my unknown heritage within the last 2 years. I used a different site however. I was pleasantly surprised by my results. Medical history records unknown.