Just found your fun channel. Had you thought about the Nat Geo genome project? My sister and brother went that route - got haplo groups, mitochondrial, and Y DNA - and a bunch of other interesting info. ( I think this was part of a research project. Don't know if it's still available.).
09:23 They aren’t off. It’s just that DNA inheritance is a crapshoot. Just because your mother may be 75% French, you are not guaranteed to inherit ANY French genes (this is what happened in my case). Instead, I inherited a majority of British genes from my father, which I had no idea that I would have inherited so much of! The British genes all came from his adopted mother (she was adopted; my dad wasn’t). I inherited a whopping 69% of British genes, while my father only inherited 41% British genes. I used FamilyTree DNA for my test, which is the one you are discussing at the above timestamp.
@Cultures' Lover Well I'm a native speaker of both Hindi and Bengali, because I'm from West Bengal, India, and Hindi is the official language and used in TV shows. And after that I learnt English in school. Growing up speaking two languages is a little weird, ngl. I remember starting a sentence in one and ending in another when I was young, or often replacing vocabulary. But it's good, because of the fact that you get to experience two cultures, two languages and two literatures. That's why I've started taking interest some Spanish, I'm hopeful of learning it. I understand from your username that you're multilingual as well?
I found my maternal grandma the same way. She died before I did the test, but I got to meet that side of the family and my mom discovered she's not an only child at all. She has three siblings.
I took the Ancestry test. Being adopted, I never knew what my heritage was. Not only did I find out where my family came from, but I also located a cousin, who linked me to my entire family tree, including my birth father. It was quite the emotional experience for me. Thank you for the very informative video.
I know the feeling. I'm also adopted and I did get to know my family and even my biological mother but my grandfather on my father's side is still a mystery. I would like to one day find out who he is. Apparently he was the rich owner of a plantation where my grandma worked at, and then I don't know why but he disappeared.
@@calgboi There is DNA evidence that Jesus existed and exists. His blood type was AB. Even His mother's house still exists til this day. Do a better research next time and let people believe in Jesus if they want to, who named you the mod of this comment section?
My college roommate was a Vietnamese orphan/immigrant in the late 70s. She did not know anything about herself, including her age. All she knew was her first name. She was ~4 yo and wandering the streets in Malaysia. She was sponsored by a family and brought to the US. She is now 50 yo. A few years ago, she had a DNA match with a first cousin. The cousin (in Finland) was talking to her cousins and told them she didn’t know who this person was that matched with her. The cousins said it must be their long-lost older sister. My friend spoke to them and they had their dad take a DNA test to confirm. She was their sister! Several of her sisters lived in the US and she visited them. Then her father came to visit with one of her brothers. He got her in contact with her mother. They were "teenage lovers" and had her at 16. His mother did not allow him to marry her. They were in different social classes. Her mother sent her on the boat with some relatives and they abandoned her! A big no-no in the Vietnamese culture. I think her story is just incredible.
We should all make a complaint to youtube for getting rid of community-contributed captions. Its a crime that they would do that. and even after doing that, they still don't offer auto-generated captions on all of their videos, and the ones that do are decent but still shoddy.
Hi. I hope this isnt inappropriate,but I am curious. When there is a subtitle like "Wind blowing" or "Soft music", is that for hearing impaired or just a consequence of computer captioning? To me its like braille on an airplane flight controls.
Yeah I'd love if I could make subtitles for videos. I don't have physical but mental hearing problems, my ears can't concentrate on what I'm trying to concentrate on so I use subtitles all the time. It's really cool when creators make subtitles I love it!
Ok everybody listen up. You don’t have to pay $600 for a fancy kit to find all your health risks. Take a normal DNA test like 23&me or ancestry or whatever, then pay the $10 to access the promethease database. Up load your raw DNA data, Search by citation, and boom all the same snp disease attributions for a 60th of the price!
@@sharoncox1734 NCBI's ClinVar tool has the sequences for pretty much all SNPs that are known. You upload the sequence, then choose the SNP type "pathogenic" and then search. I'm guessing the raw DNA data comes in FASTA format, but I don't know how much they have sequenced nor what methods they use, so depending on the size of the data, it can take some time as the tool goes through it. There are plenty of videos on UA-cam about how to use NCBI ClinVar and find SNPs and other mutations.
About a year ago, at the age of 70, I sent in a DNA sample from a test kit that an aunt had given me a year or two before. I knew I had been adopted at birth and really didn't expect to find out much of anything. I couldn't have been more wrong. The results came back about four weeks later and 2 months after that I found out I had five full siblings, a half-brother and about 40 first cousins. I guess you're never too old to be surprised.
My brothers wanted to do DNA. I never really wanted to because I suspected we be half brothers. They had no features of my father or his family only my mother. While I look like my father and have gray eyes like him. People always made comments like I was the one that looked like my father. Well I finally agreed to do DNA. Sure enough my suspicion was right. Well my two older and two younger are wondering how can that be. I just keep my mouth shut about what I saw and know. They keep asking me if I know anything and I just say no and keep my mouth shut.
My family did 23&Me & found a cousin! My aunt had a baby out of wedlock in 1957 & went away for several months to have the baby & give to the Catholic adoption agency in the L.A. area. We finally found him & we're a big happy family now!
I feel a little sorry for those mother’s in the 1950’s and 1960’s that gave their babies up for adoption thinking their secret would be sealed for ever because that’s what they were told.. Of course the child that was put up for adoption has the right to find out for health reasons. I know this revelation has caused some drama in families because the mother kept the secret.
@@phoebebee4250 Not really. It's extremely unlikely that tree is correct. You can only go so many generations with DNA, after that you have to rely purely on records (if they even exist) and your faith in your ancestors fidelity. One non-paternal event and suddenly a big chunk of your tree is wrong. And if it happens more than once... Well, you get the gyst. And if you want to know more, read up on ginealogical proof standard.
My husband and I both took a test. He did 23 and Me and I did Ancestry. I really liked how ancestry broke down the areas and early settlements for my ancestors. My husband however, took the 23 and me. Ironically, discovered he was NOT an only child after all. He had 4 more siblings! Somehow he managed to take the one test that 2 siblings also took and found each other and eventually discovered a great deal more about his family and the secrets within.
That's so neat! My step-dad found out he has an older half sister. They got to meet up last year and they look EXACTLY ALIKE. No doubt she's really his sister.
My brother did the ancestry test and found that we had a cousin loving in Geelong, we knew that his father had died in a car accident rushing home from work after hearing that his wife had gone into labor , she re-married and her husband raised the boy as his own. He died sometime later, and she is now in a nursing home, but Vincent turned out to be a really good bloke.
I was adopted as a baby and used AncestryDNA and found my long lost father! (Okay, I actually had an idea who he was, but the test really confirmed it). He didn’t even know about me, but he and his family embraced me and now we have a wonderful and loving relationship! Now my grandchildren have a great grandpa too! I am so very grateful for these easily available tests!
I did 23AndMe for my birthday this year, and found an aunt my family didn't know existed from a one night stand my paternal grandfather had back in 1959. She was adopted and never knew her birth parents. She visited us over the summer. :)
Insane how many stories like this I've heard; I grew up in Illinois, and before my great grandmother passed last year I was able to find out I had an unknown, closely related aunt across the country, a child my great grandmother had been forced to give up many years ago for financial reasons. They were able to be reunited and now the family is a little bigger! Amazing what DNA is revealing for so many
Amazing. Same happened to my grandmothers sister. She was actually my grandparents love child that they gave up before they were married. She went on to become a professor at a university and wrote a book about her life that my grandmother later found.
I created a lot of drama in my family by discovering that my mother had a different father than the rest of her family. Turns out I have an aunt and three uncles that I never knew about.
This is what I’m scared of 😂 When i first took the test it said I was 20% chinese and 80% Vietnamese which made sense since my grandma was half chinese. Over the course of 2 years, it now says I’m 100% Vietnamese but that makes no sense cause then my grandma isn’t my grandma then so who’s my mom’s real mom???? Which siblings are real siblings?? I’m too scared to start the suspicions
DNA proved my abusive birth father was a lying cheater his whole life... I have 2 adult siblings, each born RIGHT in the middle of each of his marriages (while he swore he was faithful throughout) It's nice to finally understand why he was so hateful. Lying and guilt. 🥰
As far as "secrets," I got a MASSIVE shock in the best possible way! In high school I had a bestie whose sister was the bestie of my sister. They were in middle school, we were in high school, and each of us came from a two-sister household, no other siblings involved. So a set of sisters was besties with a set of sisters. That was early 2000s (I graduated in 2004). Fast forward to 2019, come to find out on Ancestry that we have the same great-grandparents - we are second cousins! My sister & I have zero first cousins so for us that's as close as it gets! The odds of us ever meeting, let alone becoming friends, let alone both of us becoming friends with both of them, are astronomical. The family we're related through is from New England we were all living in the DC Metro area. My sister & I because our father moved away when he grew up and they were here because they actually were stationed around the world growing up with their parents who worked in diplomacy. We were just another station for them, being in DC. Furthermore, we were in a private Christian school, NOT public school, so even after we ended up in the same area despite our common family being so far away, we had to end up at the same TINY private school. My sister & I only got there at the same time they did after we'd been in public school all our lives! They got there at the same time when their parents were assigned to Washington. The public schools in our area have high schools with student numbers in the thousands. Our school was K3-12 but the high school part of it was at or just below 100 students. Tiny. So for all of us to end up there is insane. Turns out our grandfather was the brother of their grandmother! Our grandfather is the only grandparent we never knew as he died in a plane crash many years prior to our births. Since we never knew him and our father didn't either, we didn't care to look into his family - the man who married our grandmother became our fourth grandparent and we saw his family as ours. So not only did we find out our very close friends of a decade & a half were the closest cousins we have, our grandparents being siblings, but my sister & I also gained an entire extended family! They are the very best we could ask for and we love them dearly! Also, I found out a cousin on my mom's side was an egg donor and none of us knew. So we have some family through that too. That surprise pales in comparison though!
video in a nutshell: Circle Dna is best to find out about your health, Ancestry is best for discovering your lineage(if you live in US). This is what I could gather from what he said about them)
You know what's best for your health? Get referred to a geneticist and genetic counselor so that they can order what's appropriate for you from a CLIA certified lab (that won't sell your data), interpret and explain your results in a manner that you fully understand, and help you address any risk factors that show up.
right! he also didn't mention that it's given to both males and females from the mother. another interesting thing a friend of mine found out when she was researching her dog's breed line is that they use the mitochondria for that as well.
A family friend knew his whole life he was adopted but out of respect for his adoptive parents he never looked into it. After his parents passed away a few years ago he started digging into his past through ancestry and was able to identify a cousin. He worked with her to identify his biological father. Turns out the man never knew about his existence and the only candidate for a mother that fits the timeline would have been a woman he had a one night stand with in college. They have formed a pretty good relationship as I understand it.
Sponsered *** hundreds of thousands even millions will see and everyone got fb and even Twitter has the option as well.. It’s like 5 bucks and boom.... you can put anything
my dad was obsessed with these tests for a while, but never got much out of it. one day a random woman from australia (we live in the us) messaged him asking how they were related. no one related to us knew anything about her, but his mom later admitted that she had her at 15 and gave her up for adoption before moving to the us. my dad was an only child his whole life, and she never knew she was adopted (my dad was in his late 40s and she was in her late 50s)
Does anyone know how I can trace my fathers line back as far as possible I.e father to father. I got to 1600 then can't find anything as to where they lived.
I took 23 & Me a year ago, and more recently, Ancestry. The warning about discovering things you didn't know about yourself or your family : absolutely true. I found a first cousin with 23 & Me, and to make a long story very short, I discovered that my father wasn't my father. My genetic father was someone I didn't know who had passed away 3 years ago, and I have a half sister and half brother whom I've talked to but haven't met, yet. But the distant lineage results were really fascinating, and I'll be interested to see how they match up with the Ancestry test when it arrives.
@@junipjunip I love Ancestry's genealogy because it turns out that every line in my family has been in the U.S. since the late 1600's/early 1700's. What I don't love about them is that I waited long past the minimum wait time for DNA results and heard nothing. So I sent an inquiry and they said the sample must have been lost. Not their fault, but the process to get a new kit was a bit convoluted, and I have to start the waiting game all over. 12 Days after they said it shipped, I still don't have the new kit (I live in a residential area, have never had problems with my mail). It's been a few days longer than the estimated 7 - 10 business days. I hope I don't sound like a whiner, but I hoped for these results months ago. My "mail" problems are hopefully unique, but 23 & Me was easy and quick by comparison. The subscription to Ancestry's document database, however, has been amazing. Because of the DNA wait time, I've already had to renew my 3-month access and don't know what it's like to see the DNA and database working together, but the amount of information I've gotten about my family members is unreal.
@Brandon Palmer I didn't tell him. He's in his seventies, he's always treated me well, and I'm the only child he has (even if not genetically). I'm usually all for putting the truth out there, and while finding out opened up some doors I didn't know existed (including about my mother), I don't feel any differently about him. I'm not 100% sure that he'd be totally shocked. But I don't think any good would come of telling him.
@@willbrink Yes, I did. It took her a few days to admit it, but I wouldn't have known anything for sure without her eventually telling me that she'd had a long-term affair. To be fair, she was in shock because this all happened 43 years ago, and although she wasn't positive about who my dad was, she thought (or maybe hoped) it was her husband. And nothing in 43 years had ever happened to throw that into doubt except something dad's mom said mentioned when I was born : that they'd never had anyone with my granddad's last name born with red hair. You need recessive genes from all 4 grandparents to get red hair like mine. One of mom's comments when the truth came out was that her "sins had come back to haunt" her. I obviously don't love her any less, but I guess I realize she's more complex than I imagined - - the woman who gave birth to me isn't just "mom," and things could have gone so much differently.
The whole exercise is just a waste of time because he recieved free kits which got different attentiokn then a normal kit. Don't even need to have to watch the video because he proved the test was flawed 30seconds in
The half sibling thing happened to me... well my dad, turned out my grandad was with a woman he dosent remember in the 50s and got her pregnant unbeknownst to him, 60 something years later I discovered a half aunt in florida ahah
My mom recently discovered she has a half-sister who is 8 months younger than her...Her younger brother apparently then pointed out that, based on what he saw when he was a kid getting dragged around with their father all the time, it's unlikely she's the only one...
My Dad told me not to tell, but he's been gone 5 years now. Told me we have a half brother, even gave me a name. Said he "might" also have fathered a set of twins but he didn't think those were his. Lived with a stripper for a while. Oh....Dad, I love you anyway. Before my mom tho
We came across, through Ancestory DNA, who is most likely my father’s half sister. His dad ran out on the family when my dad was 2. His dad was a womanizer, and had a fling with a married women who was a floozy. But her husband raised my half aunt as his own, and didn’t tell her until he was old or near death. She did a dna test, and now I have another aunt and cousins! It would be interesting for her snd my dad to do a private dna test to make sure.
Ya, I already know that I am a test tube baby. Which means that I am not genetically related to my mom even though she gave birth to me. That even means that I could have maybe like 6 half siblings who are test tube babies also.
I forgot the reason why but there was a couple who had a daughter and when she was young the father and daughter did some blood tests and were informed the daughter is not his. The couple inevitably divorced. Then when the girl was a teen she did one of these dna test and found someone else she was a high % match with and reached out to them. Turns out that girl was her sister and the baby was switched at birth at the hospital, both the mother and father that raised her were not her real parents. The couple got divorced as a result. I always remember this story whenever someone mentions DNA test.
Well that's an unlikely possibility but it's easy to check anyway: make the mother do the test too. If she refuses, she has something to hide. In most cases, it's just the father. I've read somewhere that 1/4th of the men doing a paternity test because they had doubts weren't indeed the biological father of their child(dren). Lying purposefully about such a thing should be a criminal offense honestly.
my grandmother was a nurse and 1 in every baby boomer out of 10000 was most likely switched 50s-70s had it here and there . she also said a baby died of a rich family and the hospital didn't want to get them sad/mad etc so they gave another baby and told the other hers died.
@@bunzeebear2973 I think that in the real world, people will always care about their roots (even if it depends on the individual). They won't forget their adoptive parents, but there will always be a special place for biological parents, the ones who passed on their traits to that new generation.
"unless you're a Habsburg your probably have 16 great-grandparents". I love it when the person I'm talking with puts a little "smart" joke in there. thx
I found my biological father through 23 & Me when I was 24 years old. We had no idea each other existed. Turns out the dad who raised me isn't my bio father, and a lot of family members knew except for me.. 23 & Me connected us automatically (we happened to both take take the same DNA test). At the end of the day, me and my dad are closer; and I met my bio father twice now. I have 4 new half siblings (I'm the oldest on both sides). A whole bonus family, we stay in touch and plan to visit often. It's pretty cool lol
Could you explain more in detail how that happened? Did he take the test too or did the test show you his name? I would also like to find my relatives so id be so happy if you answered!
@@Dworkinsdaughter of course! So he took the same DNA test from 23&Me a few years prior. When I took mine, their database connected my father and I automatically to our “family tree”- then we were able to message each other from there. I’ve found dozens and dozens of cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. so cool :)
@@Kopp203 he knew there was a chance I wasn’t his but it was never confirmed. He didn’t care. They were broken up when I was conceived and back together already when they found out she was pregnant. He never wanted a paternity test done.
Took both Ancestry and 23andMe tests. Ancestry is far and away the best even though I ended up paying for a monthly subscription. It is wonderful for family tree building and good record resources. 23andMe gave me a more detailed breakdown, however, of where my ancestors were from…..that is, the various counties in England and Ireland. Am very glad I did both tests!
I did the 23&Me DNA test several years ago, just for fun. A few years later I was automatically connected with another women who shares 26% DNA with me! She was adopted as a baby and has been searching for information about her background and bio parents ever since she was a teenager. After connecting and chatting for a bit we found out that we are only 1 month apart in age and we share the same dad and I was able to at least point her in the right direction at finding more info about him (although him and I are estranged and he hasn't been involved in my life for the past 25 years... super dead beat guy.) I now have a half-sister I had no idea I had, and she now has an older half-sister (me) and a younger half brother (my little brother)! I wonder how many other half-siblings I can have out there in the world!
Maybe I'm wrong, but if you have 50% DNA from your dad, and she has 50% DNA from your dad, shouldn't you share 50% DNA with her? Sounds like you have a common grandparent.
I was adopted on my father's side. I tried to find out if I was anyone's family and was I ever disappointed!! I found out that my father's side didn't want to know me and were extremely snobbish. Not all tests have a happy ending!!!!
My husband had two unknown half-siblings locate his family. It was known that their father was a rolling stone, so it wasn't a surprise. There could be more. 🤷♀️ Best of luck to you!
I did the ancestry test, and discovered a girl I dated in school was actually a relative. I got in touch with her through the service and we both had a great laugh. I also found out a younger sister was a half sister, (not the same father) ouch! Both my parents are gone now, so let the chips fall where they may. I was overall surprised and pleased with the results.
As a Mexican who took the Ancestry test, I just want to point out that, while being completely accurate on the DNA genealogy results, when trying to explore their “civil service documents database” (so to speak), they have absolutely no access to Spanish records, that is, no records from the country of Spain, which is from where most Mexicans can trace part of their ancestry. Maybe there is more access to Spanish records on My Heritage? Just adding that there is, in fact, a quite surprising amount of Mexican records on Ancestry.
@@ALXandroATS On the Ancestry test, not at all. But I also took the CRI Genetics test, where I did in fact come up with Peruvian ancestry. Although I highly doubt the results of the CRI Genetics test, I also turned out to have Scandinavian and Indian roots, which is highly unlikely.
Lately I have been thinking of getting a DNA test and this was a very informative and helpful video. I appreciate the time you took to investigate these options. I also enjoy that you're a proud cat person too!
It seems to me like the Circle test is a scam. Musical ability and IQ determined by genetics??!?!!?!?!?! Are you kidding me? Musical ability is formed through years of hard work, and IQ is determined by education level; people in developing countries often have lower IQs not because of genetics, but because their education system is so much worse than those in developed countries.
@@GoogleAccount-if6pu being smart and intelligent Is not the same. Smartness Is mostly determined by genetics. IQ tests consists on math, logic, language, Speed. How do you expect an analphabet Person to be able to spot ortographical errors or reading math?
A very thorough and informative video Matt. I’ve done DNA tests with Ancestry and MyHeritage. My results overall showed my genetic profiles being different for both. As one example, Ancestry has me at 90% Italian whereas MyHeritage has me at 75%. I prefer Ancestry because I’m quite familiar with their family tree tools and resources but MyHeritage has similar great tools Ancestry doesn’t such as a Tree Consistency Checker that points out date anomalies with family member profiles. Nonetheless, it’s all quite interesting and intriguing. ❤️🇮🇹🇨🇦
You also wave your right to any privacy or protection of your dna as soon as you export it from the company site that you did your DNA with. That stopped me dead in my tracks ha.
That's like learning other countries' way of living and stuff like that so you can be racist online more accurately. (BTW this is a joke don't take it seriously)
I did the 23 and me test, but I got it for free as I have Lupus and they were looking for people with it to study their DNA. If you have a chronic or rare illness I’d say try and see if they have any studies open. You might be able to get a free test.
The same goes for some family associations that are looking for specific descendants. Google "DNA " and your surname to get to a website (usually on FTDNA's website, but maybe others) to find out.
@Oona Craig true.. CCP wrote several papers on this before buying all these companies up, now military in China has these databases.. why? Why was Covid 19 ? Sus
Huh, wish I'd known that before I paid out for mine, I have Ehler's Danlos Syndrome and I'd love to contribute to research, even if it's just something like this.
Glad finding unknown relatives has gone well for most. Mine didn't. My aunt had a child in HS (late 1930s) and gave the child up for adoption. He contacted us almost 50 years later and was shunned by her and most of the family. My dad embraced him and it caused a deep family rift. Cherish your relatives, known and unknown.
It was a time of immense shame and ostracism for any girl pregnant out of wedlock. She could be considered unmarriagable. So she would likely felt that shame all over again when he turned up, and just denied it. I hope you feel proud of your father who embraced this man as a new member of your family. Perhaps listen to the story of the singer Mary Gauthier when she tracked down her birth mother, very sad. Go well.
Yes, I found out I have a half-sister after finding my mom after thirty years. She resents the hell out of me. She is such a horrible person that I just can't deal with her so many times these stories don't always turn out well! It is a shame.
My wife took ancestry’s test. She knew she had a father half sister and brother somewhere. After the test she was contacted by a relative on that side. Before I knew it she found out where they lived and her and her brother were able to see her father she hadn’t seen in 40 years. She also found out she had another brother she didn’t know about. It was pretty neat!
I would be glad if you would answer, because I am currently struggling with a similar situation and I'm curious about what other people have experienced
I am 53yo, I just posted my ancestry sample. I "know" what it is going to say, some of which is a family "dirty secret" (not to me, I'm proud, and looking forward to validation. There might also be something interesting and I'm waiting with bated breath!
I took the AncestryDNA test. I bought it when they were having a holiday sale. It was totally worth it! I learned so much about my family, and am still discovering things, months later. I learned that there were some family ethnicity secrets which were actually quite funny. My Wx-Sister-in-law passed away unexpectedly, and never told anyone who my Niece’s biological father was. My Niece did the AncestryDNA test, and found him! It was a wonderful surprise for both of them!
You just can't begin such an interesting story and leave it like that. Did that man live near or far away from you? did you expect him to be her father? Do they look alike? Has he got a family? Please... :D
i did too, i ordered may 6th. and i’m yet to get my package sadly. It is now June 22nd and I still don’t have my kit. Starting to think i’ll never get it :(
I have heard about these. Mum cheats on husband/partner Mum thinks other dude is father Husband/partner stays to raise child. Mum was wrong and husband/partner was father.
I’ve taken 23andMe and AncestryDNA, my results were almost the same, except 23andMe was more detailed in the breakdown, but Ancestry Thruline feature for comparing your family tree with your DNA matches to see how you are related to your matches (if their tree is public).
I took those two as well and got some pretty different results, I'm Hispanic for reference and ancestryDNA said I was 12% French... not sure I buy that
@@Retotion You do realise that France is very close to Spain don't you? It might just be that the way they've classified the DNA they previously had was from just on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees as French, or that there's been some mixing back generations and generations ago with someone who has French genes in them but was Spanish. There will be inaccuracies in this and there will be some shared DNA between France and Spain so I'm not surprised at all. If you take these tests you have to go into it with an open mind otherwise what's the point? None of us really know our ancestors from the Middle Ages, for example, maybe earlier. 10% sounds a lot, but it isn't, 90% I assume is from where you expected so I would just write it off, though there will be margins of error in all these tests.
My son did his DNA, was contacted by my brother from another mother. It is so wonderful to have a brother I didn’t know about . We are both adopted. Same father different mother best news ever.
I found two half sisters by different mothers. One died in 2013. But I found these sisters through my ancestry family tree, not DNA. But right now Ancestry is processing my DNA sample. I believe they keep these samples private.
Back in 1977 I told my girlfriend, a biology major, that I sneeze when I look at the sun. She scoffed, but later reported to me, amazed, that she learned sneezing when looking at the sun is a hereditary trait. Weirdly, as far as I know, I'm the only one in my family who does it.
Actually.If u need to sneeze look at any* bright light. And...if u are in a situation is which emotional like u feel like crying. Look up****also into a light if available. This helps. This was a trait sometimes used on labor & delivery wards when new mom's felt like crying. This is very old school. Yet. It works & unfortunately still unemployed.!
since people are talking about their experiences : after not taking any tests i found out both my parents were downstairs, it's such a miracle, i've been living in my bedroom my whole life !
I found out I had a long lost cousin from this test (23andme). She was my age, my uncle and her mom had a fling and she got pregnant without telling him. She wanted to meet us, and her dad. I called my cousin to break the news about her long lost sister. Long story short, my family was so excited to meet her. She and my uncle talk everyday, he was able to meet his new granddaughter. My cousin is so in love with her sister. I couldn’t imagine her not being in our lives. I’m so thankful for these tests ❤️
As a PSA-- when getting a DNA test that includes health information, that information can count as a "pre existing condition" even if it hasn't become apparent yet and therefore insurance companies can treat it as such. As for life insurance this information can potentiality make you uninsurable so if you intend to get a DNA test that gives you this information make you have your insurance in order before getting your test.
Techincally speaking the DNA info cannot be used by your insurance company because of GINA - Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act. Doesn't mean they wont' try it.
I was simply passing along info I learned while studying for my life insurance license. If you are say 40 years old, but discover because of genetics you have a high probability of developing an illness that could have you dead within the next 30 years, and are made aware of this of this likelihood, most insurance companies may pass on insuring you rather then risk the payout.
Wow! Very helpful "lay-of-the-land" information, offered with unusual candor and neutrality. Thank you. I did Ancestry, and am happy with the ancestral results and welcome possible surprises. I think I'll now additionally pop for Circle about health. At 62, the die is cast, but I'm interested in anything that could help me steer for a healthier / happier/ longer future.
I wanted to build a family tree using 23 and me so I purchased 6 tests while they were on sale. The combination of DNA and health. I was able to help my mom find several first cousins that had been adopted out when they were very small children, as well as several of my mom's half siblings. She was very into genealogy and enjoyed talking to them. Unfortunately she passed away about 6 months later, but it makes me happy knowing she got to experience meeting family members she hadn't seen for almost 60 years.
How much was it per test when you got them? I was about to buy the health and ancestry one right now it's on sale for 149 down from 199 but I'm wondering if I should just wait for a better deal
I love how you lay out your analysis and comparisons. It is exactly how I research and compare things that I am interested in. Your presentations are so easy to understand and are very clear and concise. Excellent work.
Ancestry’s settler group accuracy is incredible. They correctly pinpointed that my ancestors were settlers of Minnesota, despite that only happening in the mid to late 1800’s! That is crazy accurate because I had no idea my ancestors from that period had enough descendants where they could tell I was related to that settler group.
@dev null Well, I'm no shill and I can say that the settler route accuracy with the one I tried was absolutely spot on to the old fashioned paper trail genealogy my Uncle had compiled many years ago (pre computer - can you imagine). They were a classic specific movement group - early Scots-Irish to N.Eng. into Penn. down to the Carolinas across the mountains into Ky and Tenn. (classic Daniel Boone family route as well).
I agree. My Ancestry results showed my grandfather's Scots-Irish roots all the way back to the settlers of Appalachia around the mid 1700s. Was incredible to find out!
As an adopted person (now adult) a big "to know" about meeting biological parents in person is that they put you up for adoption for a reason. It could have been age, economy, their own failing health and worry of your future, a fallout with the other parent leading to losing attachment, and more. If it was straight up "I did not want a child" that sentiment doesn't exactly change that much in my experience. It was polite but they were NOT a parent because they had no other children so they did not act like a parent. It was a super pleasant, very nice meal with bio dad, whom is difficult to stay in touch and busy with a high paying job. (Tends to happen when you have no kids, lol.) Bio Mom had other children so meeting her was a rollercoaster because she just felt eternal guilt and regret which is awkward because I sincerely loved my real parents (you know, the ones who really raised me- those will always be MY mom and MY dad.) So I basically told her she absolutely made the right choice, my life was wonderful, I loved my parents and they loved me truly, and it was okay. You could see the weight leave her shoulders. But some time later her psychological issues of lashing out and what not started to leak into our convos so I had to cut her out of my life- after all, I lived a few decades without her, and I will NOT stand for being treated poorly in the name of 'family.' Family is love, not blood alone.
I'm adopted too, I never took a test, I keep going back and forth on if I want to take one or not. Supposedly, I met a sibling online, but we are so different that we don't talk a lot, but I am a talker, so I'm sure they found out more than they wanted about me haha and I did get some family info that helped. I am curious more on the health part than anything else though tbh.
You made the right choice sadly it wasn’t a June Cleaver relationship however it sounds like your Loving Supportive Adoptive Parents and you were the true winners.
I feel the same way. I was adopted by family relatives. Growing up was difficult and psychologial hard to accept. Been a grown woman now. All those issues were helead by time and having my own family. Adopted parents are gone now, and i thank God every day for everything they provided. More than a roof, they provided a strong faith in God. That's what i am greatful the most. ❤ Hope they are in Heaven enjoying Jesus due to all their sacrifices. 🙏
Since no other country calls themselves Americans it’s not really an abnormal statement! Never met anyone from Venezuela they call them selves in American. In the US it’s literally part of our name! Furthermore when I lived in France and no one ever asked me if I was from north or south America. I would think often skin tone (but not always) would definitely give it away! Although there are light-skinned folks throughout South America & Central America. Furthermore if somebody is of African dissent they are very rarely from South America. So this is a foolish “gotcha” statement!
@@kayjay3898 I'm under the impression you were thinking this is the usual quip folks use about the "American" appropriation by the US. This isn't it (I actually don't have an issue with that), I agree that if someone calls themselves American, they're almost certainly from the US. My joke above was just a way to point out that, in this video, they're trying to appeal to a broader audience by suggesting what's the best course of action based on where you live, but they only mention either North America (as opposed to the US) or Europe. While, in fact, there are many other countries that would be interested in a DNA test. I don't mean to fault the content creators so much as the DNA companies themselves for this. It's just how the market works, focus is where the money's coming from. But it is frustrating for us non-US/Europe residents that stuff comes first or is better in those places (especially considering European wealth as a consequence of colonial exploitation.....). Don't worry, you can keep calling yourselves Americans, your country's name doesn't really lend itself to anything different anyway... Unitedstatesian? Unitedstatish? Nah. American sounds better ;) Further, I don't think I understand what you meant about people with African descent being very rarely from South America. Over 50% of the entire Brazilian population (the most populated country in South America) identifies with an African ethnicity...🤔But again, not sure exactly what you meant, so, elaborate? :)
Thank you for such a detailed review of DNA tests! I’ve already done a DNA test with Ancestry, but now I know I need to do one with MyHeritage as well. Very informative and helpful!
I'd like to see an updated version of this. We would not only be able to compare the changes between these like before, but also the changes each company has made over these 2 years
I’m a somewhat early-model test tube baby, I’ve been torn for a while on sating my burning curiosity and not upsetting my father who I suspect has always been a bit sensitive about the topic to the point where I didn’t even find out about it till a few years ago and only then after figuring out some things that didn’t add up. (Spoiler, an A and O blood type couple can’t make someone who’s AB)
It's great you care about his feelings. There's always the option of just taking the test and knowing for your own purposes and maybe filling him in on anything later on if he seems more open to talking about it. Real family is ultimately something we choose more than anything we're born into.
Not to sound insensitive but it’s important that you know. I think it’s very selfish of your father to try and keep something like that from you. No matter the case the truth is never easy to swallow. It’s better though to know the truth than nothing at all.
What the hell are y’all talking about don’t make out his father out as a selfish prick just from a few sentences he said. Ugh, it’s normal to be nervous and have mixed feelings about your adopted child’s birth parents. If you really are interested and you probably are, talk to your parents about your desire to learn, and take the test. If they refuse, then you can still take it but I doubt they will.
@@iguicc I never said their father was a prick. I simply said his actions are selfish… which they are. With holding information due to ones own personal feelings is blatantly selfish regardless of how you paint it. At the end of the day this person has a right to know about the truth. It’s their life and if this is something that is truly bothering them then they deserve the right to look into it and seek answers regardless of how their adoptive parents feel. 🤷🏾♀️
Great video. Lots of useful information opposed to the other "me-me-me" videos out there. Thank you for your thoroughness and time vested in this information!!!
I found a first cousin through Ancestry DNA. Our dads are brothers. My dad was adopted, and her dad left when she was little. Neither of us knew our dads' family. We made a plan and I drove from Michigan to SW Iowa to meet her. It was a great trip.
@@michaelcollins8328 Ha! A similar thing happened to my significant other‘s brother. There was always whispers in the family that he had a different father than my significant other and their sister, but it wasn’t talked about beyond it being a joke rumor - the DNA test confirmed it as being fact though. They have an idea of who his father MIGHT be, but they are not sure. Unfortunately their mother died quite a few years ago, so they can’t ask her. Pretty crazy stuff.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 The same with me. My parents are all deceased, but, thru DNA testing, I found two half brother. Now, we have dinner together once a week.
It's interesting how popular these tests are in America, where most everyone is an immigrant, because in Europe I know my family tree is just Irish and Scottish lol
That's really the big appeal aye. Similar thing in Aus where I live. Everyone's heard stories but not enough concrete evidence exists for them to know just how true they are😂
"It's interesting how popular these tests are in America, where most everyone is an immigrant" a huge amount of the population is not immigrant though, rather, they are descendants from kidnapped and enslaved people and therefor literally don't know their heritage. Black americans and Native americans are not immigrants.
You'd be surprised what your heritage might be, even in Europe. I took a test from MyHeritage and found out I was 23% Celtic (Scotland, Ireland, Welsh) and 16% English even though I live in the Netherlands and my closest living family are all Dutch. I have no idea where the 'extra' DNA came from lol
@Ignacio Front I reckon you answered your own question. You KNOW you're German. Your family probably have been for centuries (I'm assuming). Most Americans, because of its founding as somewhere AGAINST British society, or because of slavery, haven't a clue where they're really from. coz realistically only Amerindians are from America historically. Therefore people get these tests
@@ThomasKent1346 That’s cool! I’m descended from very minor nobility who were given a royal land grant in Mexico sometime in the way back, I’d have to look it up again. I’m sure if I tried to contact them (if they’re still around) they’d politely but firmly escort me off the property. It is fun knowing who and where we came from, though.
I did 23andMe and then uploaded my raw data to MyHeritage. That connected me with a half sister less than a year younger than me. We grew up in the same town. To say I was shocked was an understatement
That happened to a friend, and the other family, in the next state, has become very close to him and his family. My own result was extremely boring. I get notifications of 3-5th cousins with 1% shared DNA.
I went to My Heritage, and I was right, once my roots go back to Portugal. My last name came from a small village in Portugal, called Vila de Borba. As a Brazilian, the results seemed accurate.
@JesusChristChristian King o/Rome, &Earth they're in no way related. Vila comes the Latin word villa which means big house / country house. Vile also comes from Latin, from the word villis which means worthless, which later became vile in Old French. The meaning of foul is a much more recent one. It also has nothing to do with the video or this comment, so what are you on about?
The "special paper" is just an absorbent sheet in case the sample leaks in transit. It has nothing to do with freshness, but is required when shipping biologic/biohazardous materials. -Someone who packs infectious disease testing samples from blood donors
@@rigjockey67 Biohazardous is better, but most people don't have access to those. Regular trash is fine as long as other people don't go digging for and huffing other people's masks.
@@rigjockey67 Hundreds of thousands of people have died. It's dangerous enough. It doesn't live long on fabric, but it does live long enough that if you cough, it'll spread through the air unless you wear a mask or at least cough into your elbow.
@@rigjockey67 I dare you to tell that to someone who's lost a child, partner or parent during this pandemic. I personally know people who's survived but now has long term health effects from the virus.
Americans perfected pizza. I went to Italy while living in Germany a few years ago, ordered a pepperoni pizza and got a thin crusted flatbread with unseasoned tomato sauce on it. The pepperoni there? Large, 7 inch peppers that had no heat. They were slapped on the "pizza" whole. Also- NO cheese! Oddly enough, I ordered an "American Style" pizza in Freising and got exactly what I wanted. Then I kicked myself for being homesick when I still had so many German foods to sample.
I have taken 23 & Me, AncestryDNA and My Heritage. I find myself leaning more towards 23 & Me however I need to go back to AncestryDNA for confirmation. I think you need both. I’ve also found out that sharing is caring and sincerity is golden. I still have not found who I’m looking for, however I found a whole lot more than I could have ever imagined. Precious!
As i see it's not enough to take only one test... it should be combined with other test. So to your opinion, for the first time shall I take AncestryDNA?
@ ancestry was my first. I would take 23 & me first. It’s easier to share and get closer to family, you’ll see. I wish you all the best in your search.
My older half sister who was given up for adoption found me and other family members by doing the Ancestry dna test! We all knew about her already and I’m happy to have finally found her!
Im 27, a few years ago I did the ancestry test, I came across a lady in her 70s i knew nothing about yet somehow related. I contacted her, found out that my grandpa when stationed in Washington, (where I am from) he had a baby with another woman who was 16 at the time, months apart from when my grandma had her first child with him. Her mothers parents reached out to my granddad who denied the child and they parted ways after a strong exchange of words. My grandma is still alive. So I told my mom about all this, which she talked to all the siblings to see if they could come to agreement on if, they should tell my grandma about her. They agreed not to inform her. But to think, I FOUND this. Crazy. Felt like a detective. DNA doesn't lie, my mom has a half sister, and I found her... 0.0
Very interesting video. Thank you. I am fascinated by these tests, but am greatly concerned about privacy issues. Could you do a video that addresses this? Who gets access to your DNA data, particularly the health data? I see a future where insurance companies could do some nasty things with people's health data.
Your voice ,your art of narration ,your command on English language, your coherent style of teaching & the background music of ur videos ,all are just FANTASTIC👌👍👌
This video fails to mention the huge privacy concerns. Those companies should also be compared by how they handle the sensitive information they have about you. Are they deleting them after a certain time, or are they making more money by selling them? It has been known that at least one company is sharing them with law enforcement, some are funded by data leeches like google. Another thing is the ethical aspect of analysing DNA for potential diseases or other info. While hereditary disease can be identified in a lab, in many other cases it's only assumed that a single gene influences your risks or abilities, there is just not enough science backing these theories.
Good to see people mentioning the privacy concerns. One thing that you (and others) have missed though is that when you sign up for a DNA test, it doesn't just affect you. You are effectively identifying not just yourself, but your entire known biological family. Your DNA could potentially be used by someone to target yourself or your family, whether they be corrupt employees, government agents (e.g. crackdowns on whistleblowers or activists), hackers, or insurance companies. And even if there are laws protecting against some of these today, that doesn't necessarily mean those laws are being followed, or that they will remain in effect for the lifespan of the database. So if you're going to get a DNA test with one of these companies, please consult with your immediate family first to see if anyone has strong objections. The results are often not private, and can potentially put people in real danger, even if you consider yourself too boring to be at risk.
Some of them are supposed to have ties to the chinese government. Wouldn't be surprised if they used that data to find suitable organ "donors" among their (political) prisoners for harvesting and selling.
UPDATE: I uploaded my DNA to 5 more companies: ua-cam.com/video/cOXBdsywuoQ/v-deo.html
I feel like myheritage was the best one that I try and I try 6 different DNA tests
@@narrowistheway77 china bigger
what do you think of CRI Genetics test
Just found your fun channel. Had you thought about the Nat Geo genome project? My sister and brother went that route - got haplo groups, mitochondrial, and Y DNA - and a bunch of other interesting info. ( I think this was part of a research project. Don't know if it's still available.).
09:23 They aren’t off. It’s just that DNA inheritance is a crapshoot.
Just because your mother may be 75% French, you are not guaranteed to inherit ANY French genes (this is what happened in my case). Instead, I inherited a majority of British genes from my father, which I had no idea that I would have inherited so much of! The British genes all came from his adopted mother (she was adopted; my dad wasn’t). I inherited a whopping 69% of British genes, while my father only inherited 41% British genes.
I used FamilyTree DNA for my test, which is the one you are discussing at the above timestamp.
My mother is from Iceland and my father is from Cuba. I am an ICE-CUBE... way too cool for a DNA test.
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@Cultures' Lover
Well I'm a native speaker of both Hindi and Bengali, because I'm from West Bengal, India, and Hindi is the official language and used in TV shows. And after that I learnt English in school. Growing up speaking two languages is a little weird, ngl. I remember starting a sentence in one and ending in another when I was young, or often replacing vocabulary. But it's good, because of the fact that you get to experience two cultures, two languages and two literatures. That's why I've started taking interest some Spanish, I'm hopeful of learning it. I understand from your username that you're multilingual as well?
@@kakalimukherjee3297 Hey, a fellow Bengali!
@@santokun5835
Yo. কোথাথেকে?
@@kakalimukherjee3297 বাংলাদেশ
I use ancestry and I found my father.. After 33 years I’m now 36 yrs old an gonna spend my first Father’s Day this year with him. A dream come true.
Just like Luke Skywalker! Congratulations 🎉
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Aww I hope both have a great day
I found my maternal grandma the same way. She died before I did the test, but I got to meet that side of the family and my mom discovered she's not an only child at all. She has three siblings.
my parents will be glad if they don't get found xD Have fun with your father.
I took the Ancestry test. Being adopted, I never knew what my heritage was. Not only did I find out where my family came from, but I also located a cousin, who linked me to my entire family tree, including my birth father. It was quite the emotional experience for me. Thank you for the very informative video.
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@@calgboi Damn Jeffy, why do you have to be so hateful, maybe you should also stay in your lane
I know the feeling. I'm also adopted and I did get to know my family and even my biological mother but my grandfather on my father's side is still a mystery. I would like to one day find out who he is. Apparently he was the rich owner of a plantation where my grandma worked at, and then I don't know why but he disappeared.
@@calgboi There is DNA evidence that Jesus existed and exists. His blood type was AB. Even His mother's house still exists til this day. Do a better research next time and let people believe in Jesus if they want to, who named you the mod of this comment section?
@@calgboiJesus did exist, but he was just a normal human like us.
My college roommate was a Vietnamese orphan/immigrant in the late 70s. She did not know anything about herself, including her age. All she knew was her first name. She was ~4 yo and wandering the streets in Malaysia. She was sponsored by a family and brought to the US. She is now 50 yo. A few years ago, she had a DNA match with a first cousin. The cousin (in Finland) was talking to her cousins and told them she didn’t know who this person was that matched with her. The cousins said it must be their long-lost older sister. My friend spoke to them and they had their dad take a DNA test to confirm. She was their sister! Several of her sisters lived in the US and she visited them. Then her father came to visit with one of her brothers. He got her in contact with her mother. They were "teenage lovers" and had her at 16. His mother did not allow him to marry her. They were in different social classes. Her mother sent her on the boat with some relatives and they abandoned her! A big no-no in the Vietnamese culture. I think her story is just incredible.
What an incredible story this woman has. Heartbreaking, though. 😢
An Awesome story❤
Yeah I think abandoning your child is a big no-no in just about every culture. Wild story though
Which dna test did they use?
As a deaf viewer its so refreshing to see legit subtitles! Thankyou so much!!!
We should all make a complaint to youtube for getting rid of community-contributed captions. Its a crime that they would do that. and even after doing that, they still don't offer auto-generated captions on all of their videos, and the ones that do are decent but still shoddy.
I noticed this too! It was cool of him to make good subtitles. Sad though that you have to miss out on the epic intro music.
Hi. I hope this isnt inappropriate,but I am curious. When there is a subtitle like "Wind blowing" or "Soft music", is that for hearing impaired or just a consequence of computer captioning? To me its like braille on an airplane flight controls.
Deaf? You missed out on listening to William Shatner Jr. for 23 minutes.
Yeah I'd love if I could make subtitles for videos. I don't have physical but mental hearing problems, my ears can't concentrate on what I'm trying to concentrate on so I use subtitles all the time. It's really cool when creators make subtitles I love it!
Ok everybody listen up. You don’t have to pay $600 for a fancy kit to find all your health risks. Take a normal DNA test like 23&me or ancestry or whatever, then pay the $10 to access the promethease database. Up load your raw DNA data, Search by citation, and boom all the same snp disease attributions for a 60th of the price!
*Thank you*
@blah blah Sorry to hear.
@blah blah guess it's time to take Circle DNA?
@@I_THE_ME do you have more info on how to do this or what the tool can be used for? I'd love to see videos of people showing how it can be used.
@@sharoncox1734 NCBI's ClinVar tool has the sequences for pretty much all SNPs that are known. You upload the sequence, then choose the SNP type "pathogenic" and then search. I'm guessing the raw DNA data comes in FASTA format, but I don't know how much they have sequenced nor what methods they use, so depending on the size of the data, it can take some time as the tool goes through it. There are plenty of videos on UA-cam about how to use NCBI ClinVar and find SNPs and other mutations.
About a year ago, at the age of 70, I sent in a DNA sample from a test kit that an aunt had given me a year or two before. I knew I had been adopted at birth and really didn't expect to find out much of anything. I couldn't have been more wrong. The results came back about four weeks later and 2 months after that I found out I had five full siblings, a half-brother and about 40 first cousins. I guess you're never too old to be surprised.
That's a LOT of people, wow. Glad it worked out for you!
Which one did u take?
My brothers wanted to do DNA. I never really wanted to because I suspected we be half brothers. They had no features of my father or his family only my mother. While I look like my father and have gray eyes like him. People always made comments like I was the one that looked like my father. Well I finally agreed to do DNA. Sure enough my suspicion was right. Well my two older and two younger are wondering how can that be. I just keep my mouth shut about what I saw and know. They keep asking me if I know anything and I just say no and keep my mouth shut.
@Tom Earnest - Congratulations!
Which test did you take?
My family did 23&Me & found a cousin! My aunt had a baby out of wedlock in 1957 & went away for several months to have the baby & give to the Catholic adoption agency in the L.A. area. We finally found him & we're a big happy family now!
I'd be a little hurt that they didn't want me. I'd bring it up at our first Thanksgiving 😂
@@flappycelery no secrets
@desertweasel6965 Every child deserves the best. When they're given away, it's only because the biologic mother doesn't have the best to give
I feel a little sorry for those mother’s in the 1950’s and 1960’s that gave their babies up for adoption thinking their secret would be sealed for ever because that’s what they were told.. Of course the child that was put up for adoption has the right to find out for health reasons. I know this revelation has caused some drama in families because the mother kept the secret.
My grandparents have an entire wall of the house with our family tree going back to 1603. Reminds me of Harry Potter.
Wow, you lucky! I barely know a little about a few of my great grandparents. In my family nobody cares about that.
1100 AD for my Dad's line. Pity I can't go and claim some old ruins in Buckinghamshire.
@@pariahthistledowne854 ,That's amazing!
@@phoebebee4250 Not really. It's extremely unlikely that tree is correct. You can only go so many generations with DNA, after that you have to rely purely on records (if they even exist) and your faith in your ancestors fidelity. One non-paternal event and suddenly a big chunk of your tree is wrong. And if it happens more than once... Well, you get the gyst. And if you want to know more, read up on ginealogical proof standard.
We have that as well. Ours is called a "wreath".
My husband and I both took a test. He did 23 and Me and I did Ancestry. I really liked how ancestry broke down the areas and early settlements for my ancestors. My husband however, took the 23 and me. Ironically, discovered he was NOT an only child after all. He had 4 more siblings! Somehow he managed to take the one test that 2 siblings also took and found each other and eventually discovered a great deal more about his family and the secrets within.
Just ordered mine on Ancestry I'll update when I get the results
That's so neat! My step-dad found out he has an older half sister. They got to meet up last year and they look EXACTLY ALIKE. No doubt she's really his sister.
Going to be taking one of these tests soon as I know that I have a half brother out there somewhere, and hoping to find him.
Did they all meet or at least get in contact with one another??
SN : Your experience alongside your husbands, is HOLLYWOOD MOVIE worthy tbh 😭 💯 🤞
@@riversider2506 LOL. Well, it definitely was a game changer event. However, He has met 2 of the 4 siblings so far.
Me: *Drinks right before DNA test*
Circle DNA: "You're 2% milk"
*40% Bovine, because you will probably take samples with a oral swab
No no, 2% cow bc there’s dna in the cowmilk...
Plot twist: You drank only vodka before the DNA test.
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@@mumblesbadly7708 2 percent russian
My brother did the ancestry test and found that we had a cousin loving in Geelong, we knew that his father had died in a car accident rushing home from work after hearing that his wife had gone into labor , she re-married and her husband raised the boy as his own. He died sometime later, and she is now in a nursing home, but Vincent turned out to be a really good bloke.
I was adopted as a baby and used AncestryDNA and found my long lost father! (Okay, I actually had an idea who he was, but the test really confirmed it). He didn’t even know about me, but he and his family embraced me and now we have a wonderful and loving relationship! Now my grandchildren have a great grandpa too! I am so very grateful for these easily available tests!
Congratulations
That's so amazing and I'm so glad you had a happy ending!! 🤗🤗❤️
Many people don't know who their Father is.
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I'd rather get my *"Happy ending" @ the spa.
Ah I just love happy endings like this ❤️🥰.
I did 23AndMe for my birthday this year, and found an aunt my family didn't know existed from a one night stand my paternal grandfather had back in 1959. She was adopted and never knew her birth parents.
She visited us over the summer. :)
That’s amazing!
Insane how many stories like this I've heard; I grew up in Illinois, and before my great grandmother passed last year I was able to find out I had an unknown, closely related aunt across the country, a child my great grandmother had been forced to give up many years ago for financial reasons. They were able to be reunited and now the family is a little bigger! Amazing what DNA is revealing for so many
Wow you granddad was a playboy back then damnnn n66az wasn't playing word up 🤣🤣
Amazing. Same happened to my grandmothers sister. She was actually my grandparents love child that they gave up before they were married. She went on to become a professor at a university and wrote a book about her life that my grandmother later found.
Omg I almost choked on my drink
I created a lot of drama in my family by discovering that my mother had a different father than the rest of her family. Turns out I have an aunt and three uncles that I never knew about.
No, you did not create the drama. Your grandmother did when she had a child with another man. You did nothing wrong.
This is what I’m scared of 😂 When i first took the test it said I was 20% chinese and 80% Vietnamese which made sense since my grandma was half chinese. Over the course of 2 years, it now says I’m 100% Vietnamese but that makes no sense cause then my grandma isn’t my grandma then so who’s my mom’s real mom???? Which siblings are real siblings?? I’m too scared to start the suspicions
DNA proved my abusive birth father was a lying cheater his whole life... I have 2 adult siblings, each born RIGHT in the middle of each of his marriages (while he swore he was faithful throughout)
It's nice to finally understand why he was so hateful. Lying and guilt.
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I found out the same about both sides of my family. Not telling anyone
This type of scenario is more common than most people think. Humans are human, no one is perfect.
As far as "secrets," I got a MASSIVE shock in the best possible way! In high school I had a bestie whose sister was the bestie of my sister. They were in middle school, we were in high school, and each of us came from a two-sister household, no other siblings involved. So a set of sisters was besties with a set of sisters. That was early 2000s (I graduated in 2004). Fast forward to 2019, come to find out on Ancestry that we have the same great-grandparents - we are second cousins! My sister & I have zero first cousins so for us that's as close as it gets!
The odds of us ever meeting, let alone becoming friends, let alone both of us becoming friends with both of them, are astronomical. The family we're related through is from New England we were all living in the DC Metro area. My sister & I because our father moved away when he grew up and they were here because they actually were stationed around the world growing up with their parents who worked in diplomacy. We were just another station for them, being in DC. Furthermore, we were in a private Christian school, NOT public school, so even after we ended up in the same area despite our common family being so far away, we had to end up at the same TINY private school. My sister & I only got there at the same time they did after we'd been in public school all our lives! They got there at the same time when their parents were assigned to Washington. The public schools in our area have high schools with student numbers in the thousands. Our school was K3-12 but the high school part of it was at or just below 100 students. Tiny. So for all of us to end up there is insane.
Turns out our grandfather was the brother of their grandmother! Our grandfather is the only grandparent we never knew as he died in a plane crash many years prior to our births. Since we never knew him and our father didn't either, we didn't care to look into his family - the man who married our grandmother became our fourth grandparent and we saw his family as ours. So not only did we find out our very close friends of a decade & a half were the closest cousins we have, our grandparents being siblings, but my sister & I also gained an entire extended family! They are the very best we could ask for and we love them dearly!
Also, I found out a cousin on my mom's side was an egg donor and none of us knew. So we have some family through that too. That surprise pales in comparison though!
Evidence of reincarnation
What an amazing story!!
Beautiful that you met & get along so well ❣️
Wow! I cant imagine how that discovery was in real time. I would have loved to have seen the expression and reaction from you all.
Did you use ancestry?
@@karinlarsen2608thats not how evidence works
video in a nutshell: Circle Dna is best to find out about your health, Ancestry is best for discovering your lineage(if you live in US). This is what I could gather from what he said about them)
You’re the man bro, fuck a 23 min video when we have absolute CHADs in the comments like you
thank you!
Well, my choice for lineage is myheritage. Thanks for oversimplifying.
This is what I come to the comments for. I thank you 🙏🏿
You know what's best for your health? Get referred to a geneticist and genetic counselor so that they can order what's appropriate for you from a CLIA certified lab (that won't sell your data), interpret and explain your results in a manner that you fully understand, and help you address any risk factors that show up.
I'm disappointed that when talking about the mitochondria, you didn't say they were the powerhouse of the cell.
Maybe he had midichlorians in mind🤔🤣
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right! he also didn't mention that it's given to both males and females from the mother. another interesting thing a friend of mine found out when she was researching her dog's breed line is that they use the mitochondria for that as well.
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@Elly Gilmore we get it quite a bit in Britain as well
My brother and I both took the FTDNA test and yes unfortunately it turned out we were indeed brothers. tragic.
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A family friend knew his whole life he was adopted but out of respect for his adoptive parents he never looked into it. After his parents passed away a few years ago he started digging into his past through ancestry and was able to identify a cousin. He worked with her to identify his biological father. Turns out the man never knew about his existence and the only candidate for a mother that fits the timeline would have been a woman he had a one night stand with in college. They have formed a pretty good relationship as I understand it.
Interestingly, my father, who is adopted, met his birth parents because they took the Ancestory test. Completely changed our lives!
Gunna have to do that. Still looking for my mom and dad and I was adopted at 2 but I found 1 of my brothers at 28 and we been inseparable
@Cultures' Lover yes, sir, it did!
@@panchov3129 that’s amazing!
Sponsered *** hundreds of thousands even millions will see and everyone got fb and even Twitter has the option as well..
It’s like 5 bucks and boom.... you can put anything
Same with my mom - Happened when she was 58 years old. It's been wild. A little odd but mostly good.
Me from Central Asia: Ah yes, Genghis Khan.
Ah yes our mighty great great great great... Grandfather
Yes, my fellow cousins.
Cousin!!!!
Mongol hun bnu
"which represents more than half the males"
Yup, Gengis Khan, definitly
I would love to see someone ordering like 10 the same tests and see how consistent they are
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Exactly
the lab would just be filled with questions 🤣
I saw a video of some women who did 5 tests several years ago.
@@Zelda4U were they consistent?
Used Ancestry and found out I was Jewish, not Italian! My father had been adopted! Never knew this.
You might be entitled to some land in Palestine
@@shariff4473😂
oi veh!!!
It never ends. Oi.
Many Jews where in Rome, for example Saint Paul.
my dad was obsessed with these tests for a while, but never got much out of it. one day a random woman from australia (we live in the us) messaged him asking how they were related. no one related to us knew anything about her, but his mom later admitted that she had her at 15 and gave her up for adoption before moving to the us. my dad was an only child his whole life, and she never knew she was adopted (my dad was in his late 40s and she was in her late 50s)
Damn that’s crazy
God damn bro that’s one story
YES BUT THEN ONE DAY WHEN THE COP SHOP HAD GONE ASLEEP HE KILLED IT
Your father was obsessed with dna tests most likely because he sensed there was something he needed to know,.
When did you take these tests ? As far as I see on ancestry they don’t do it anymore
1:40 Circle DNA
7:50 / 14:00 Family Tree DNA
14:40 23andMe
16:00 Ancestry
19:00 MyHeritage
You are welcome my friends.
Your a legend for this
Family tree starts at 7:50. But thanks for the rest.😊
So which is better?
Does anyone know how I can trace my fathers line back as far as possible I.e father to father.
I got to 1600 then can't find anything as to where they lived.
@@CrawfordGrimaldi try GENI they are free
I took 23 & Me a year ago, and more recently, Ancestry. The warning about discovering things you didn't know about yourself or your family : absolutely true. I found a first cousin with 23 & Me, and to make a long story very short, I discovered that my father wasn't my father. My genetic father was someone I didn't know who had passed away 3 years ago, and I have a half sister and half brother whom I've talked to but haven't met, yet. But the distant lineage results were really fascinating, and I'll be interested to see how they match up with the Ancestry test when it arrives.
Of the two, which did you find to be more informative and accurate?
@@junipjunip I love Ancestry's genealogy because it turns out that every line in my family has been in the U.S. since the late 1600's/early 1700's. What I don't love about them is that I waited long past the minimum wait time for DNA results and heard nothing. So I sent an inquiry and they said the sample must have been lost. Not their fault, but the process to get a new kit was a bit convoluted, and I have to start the waiting game all over. 12 Days after they said it shipped, I still don't have the new kit (I live in a residential area, have never had problems with my mail). It's been a few days longer than the estimated 7 - 10 business days. I hope I don't sound like a whiner, but I hoped for these results months ago. My "mail" problems are hopefully unique, but 23 & Me was easy and quick by comparison. The subscription to Ancestry's document database, however, has been amazing. Because of the DNA wait time, I've already had to renew my 3-month access and don't know what it's like to see the DNA and database working together, but the amount of information I've gotten about my family members is unreal.
@Brandon Palmer I didn't tell him. He's in his seventies, he's always treated me well, and I'm the only child he has (even if not genetically). I'm usually all for putting the truth out there, and while finding out opened up some doors I didn't know existed (including about my mother), I don't feel any differently about him. I'm not 100% sure that he'd be totally shocked. But I don't think any good would come of telling him.
@@abarton1978 But did you speak to your mother? That's more interesting conversation...
@@willbrink Yes, I did. It took her a few days to admit it, but I wouldn't have known anything for sure without her eventually telling me that she'd had a long-term affair. To be fair, she was in shock because this all happened 43 years ago, and although she wasn't positive about who my dad was, she thought (or maybe hoped) it was her husband. And nothing in 43 years had ever happened to throw that into doubt except something dad's mom said mentioned when I was born : that they'd never had anyone with my granddad's last name born with red hair. You need recessive genes from all 4 grandparents to get red hair like mine.
One of mom's comments when the truth came out was that her "sins had come back to haunt" her. I obviously don't love her any less, but I guess I realize she's more complex than I imagined - - the woman who gave birth to me isn't just "mom," and things could have gone so much differently.
Found out I am Scotch-Irish. Half of me wants to get drunk, and the other half doesn't want to pay for it.
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Just to say it’s Scottish, not Scotch. Scotch is the drink (whiskey). ❤
@@samcorrigan6860 Correct. But then there's no joke.
@@KpxUrz5745 oh my gosh, I didn’t even see the joke!! That makes more sense now, haha
"I took a DNA test for cats." "I'm a big cat person."
This guy is definitely a cat.
I want to see a cat spit into a tube !!
@@TIMEtoRIDE900
Maybe one could send in part of a hairball in lieu of spit.
"I am a lawyer and not a cat".
Yea looks like I have to wait a few months for that review before I commit to one.
The whole exercise is just a waste of time because he recieved free kits which got different attentiokn then a normal kit. Don't even need to have to watch the video because he proved the test was flawed 30seconds in
The half sibling thing happened to me... well my dad, turned out my grandad was with a woman he dosent remember in the 50s and got her pregnant unbeknownst to him, 60 something years later I discovered a half aunt in florida ahah
My mom recently discovered she has a half-sister who is 8 months younger than her...Her younger brother apparently then pointed out that, based on what he saw when he was a kid getting dragged around with their father all the time, it's unlikely she's the only one...
@@MrsRen what a busy man
My Dad told me not to tell, but he's been gone 5 years now. Told me we have a half brother, even gave me a name. Said he "might" also have fathered a set of twins but he didn't think those were his. Lived with a stripper for a while. Oh....Dad, I love you anyway. Before my mom tho
We came across, through Ancestory DNA, who is most likely my father’s half sister. His dad ran out on the family when my dad was 2. His dad was a womanizer, and had a fling with a married women who was a floozy. But her husband raised my half aunt as his own, and didn’t tell her until he was old or near death. She did a dna test, and now I have another aunt and cousins! It would be interesting for her snd my dad to do a private dna test to make sure.
Ya, I already know that I am a test tube baby. Which means that I am not genetically related to my mom even though she gave birth to me. That even means that I could have maybe like 6 half siblings who are test tube babies also.
I forgot the reason why but there was a couple who had a daughter and when she was young the father and daughter did some blood tests and were informed the daughter is not his. The couple inevitably divorced. Then when the girl was a teen she did one of these dna test and found someone else she was a high % match with and reached out to them. Turns out that girl was her sister and the baby was switched at birth at the hospital, both the mother and father that raised her were not her real parents. The couple got divorced as a result. I always remember this story whenever someone mentions DNA test.
It’s a tv show called switched at birth.
Well that's an unlikely possibility but it's easy to check anyway: make the mother do the test too. If she refuses, she has something to hide.
In most cases, it's just the father. I've read somewhere that 1/4th of the men doing a paternity test because they had doubts weren't indeed the biological father of their child(dren). Lying purposefully about such a thing should be a criminal offense honestly.
my grandmother was a nurse and 1 in every baby boomer out of 10000 was most likely switched 50s-70s had it here and there . she also said a baby died of a rich family and the hospital didn't want to get them sad/mad etc so they gave another baby and told the other hers died.
Your parents ARE THE ONES THAT RAISED YOU. Not the quicky squirt. They did not want to be responsible for you growing up.
@@bunzeebear2973 I think that in the real world, people will always care about their roots (even if it depends on the individual). They won't forget their adoptive parents, but there will always be a special place for biological parents, the ones who passed on their traits to that new generation.
"unless you're a Habsburg your probably have 16 great-grandparents". I love it when the person I'm talking with puts a little "smart" joke in there. thx
They're gonna clone you for the clone army now
Get ready for UsefulCharts2, UsefulCharts3, UsefulCharts4.......
Your clones are very impressive, you must be very proud.
Execute order 66
@@UsefulCharts begone the clone wars has
@@UsefulCharts thats what happened to vsauce...
Ancestry's DNA test helped me find my grandfather before he died. I'm so grateful that their services exist.
Thats awesome! How come you didnt know about him, if I may ask?
@@PowerLord83 If you don’t get a reply, it is because he is a paid commentor.
@@williammeek4078
His account is 8 yrs old... I think it would have been easier to use bots.
@@williammeek4078 Or maybe, just maybe... they don't feel like answering something so personal? Or don't have notifications on?
@@raerohan4241 Could be, but that is highly unlikely
I found my biological father through 23 & Me when I was 24 years old. We had no idea each other existed. Turns out the dad who raised me isn't my bio father, and a lot of family members knew except for me.. 23 & Me connected us automatically (we happened to both take take the same DNA test). At the end of the day, me and my dad are closer; and I met my bio father twice now. I have 4 new half siblings (I'm the oldest on both sides). A whole bonus family, we stay in touch and plan to visit often. It's pretty cool lol
Could you explain more in detail how that happened? Did he take the test too or did the test show you his name? I would also like to find my relatives so id be so happy if you answered!
@@Dworkinsdaughter of course! So he took the same DNA test from 23&Me a few years prior. When I took mine, their database connected my father and I automatically to our “family tree”- then we were able to message each other from there. I’ve found dozens and dozens of cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. so cool :)
@@VZN2020 Did the man who raised you know that you weren't his bio kid and if not, what was the fallout for your mother?
@@Kopp203 he knew there was a chance I wasn’t his but it was never confirmed. He didn’t care. They were broken up when I was conceived and back together already when they found out she was pregnant. He never wanted a paternity test done.
Wow thats a crazy story
Took both Ancestry and 23andMe tests. Ancestry is far and away the best even though I ended up paying for a monthly subscription. It is wonderful for family tree building and good record resources. 23andMe gave me a more detailed breakdown, however, of where my ancestors were from…..that is, the various counties in England and Ireland. Am very glad I did both tests!
Me too.
Is Ancestry only subscription based? Was looking to do ones of these test but don’t know which is best (without going broke as a student)
I did the 23&Me DNA test several years ago, just for fun. A few years later I was automatically connected with another women who shares 26% DNA with me! She was adopted as a baby and has been searching for information about her background and bio parents ever since she was a teenager. After connecting and chatting for a bit we found out that we are only 1 month apart in age and we share the same dad and I was able to at least point her in the right direction at finding more info about him (although him and I are estranged and he hasn't been involved in my life for the past 25 years... super dead beat guy.) I now have a half-sister I had no idea I had, and she now has an older half-sister (me) and a younger half brother (my little brother)! I wonder how many other half-siblings I can have out there in the world!
Maybe I'm wrong, but if you have 50% DNA from your dad, and she has 50% DNA from your dad, shouldn't you share 50% DNA with her? Sounds like you have a common grandparent.
@naughtyskweet6 No, full siblings / parent-child share 50% and half siblings share about 25%
@@naughtyskweet6 different mother, same father. =25% shared heredity
I was adopted on my father's side. I tried to find out if I was anyone's family and was I ever disappointed!! I found out that my father's side didn't want to know me and were extremely snobbish. Not all tests have a happy ending!!!!
My husband had two unknown half-siblings locate his family. It was known that their father was a rolling stone, so it wasn't a surprise. There could be more. 🤷♀️ Best of luck to you!
I did the ancestry test, and discovered a girl I dated in school was actually a relative. I got in touch with her through the service and we both had a great laugh. I also found out a younger sister was a half sister, (not the same father) ouch! Both my parents are gone now, so let the chips fall where they may. I was overall surprised and pleased with the results.
Hopefully you live in alabama…
ITS TAKING TO LONG TO EXPLAIN, MINE WAS RIGHT
@@jocobcohen1835 Well he said he connected with her through the service and if it was his wife he wouldnt not be in contact with her
@@dhdjenejjshow do you explain the Alabama reference to someone who's never been to the US?
@@RafaelScapellaAlabama is stereotypically known for having relationship among family members. Maybe it is from past, but the joke stayed.
As a Mexican who took the Ancestry test, I just want to point out that, while being completely accurate on the DNA genealogy results, when trying to explore their “civil service documents database” (so to speak), they have absolutely no access to Spanish records, that is, no records from the country of Spain, which is from where most Mexicans can trace part of their ancestry. Maybe there is more access to Spanish records on My Heritage? Just adding that there is, in fact, a quite surprising amount of Mexican records on Ancestry.
good point
probably not spain is in the EU so it falls under the data protection act, but dw your government probably gets em without asking
Did your results reveal any Peruvian roots?
Probably because your name is Juan Lopez bro
@@ALXandroATS On the Ancestry test, not at all. But I also took the CRI Genetics test, where I did in fact come up with Peruvian ancestry. Although I highly doubt the results of the CRI Genetics test, I also turned out to have Scandinavian and Indian roots, which is highly unlikely.
Lately I have been thinking of getting a DNA test and this was a very informative and helpful video. I appreciate the time you took to investigate these options.
I also enjoy that you're a proud cat person too!
Why did the Circle test feel more like a roast than a test?
Circle test to Matt: Don't eat sweets, don't smoke, you are weak and terrible at music...
But you're smart! 🧠
@@hazelich9113 it said he was a normal music player
It seems to me like the Circle test is a scam. Musical ability and IQ determined by genetics??!?!!?!?!?! Are you kidding me? Musical ability is formed through years of hard work, and IQ is determined by education level; people in developing countries often have lower IQs not because of genetics, but because their education system is so much worse than those in developed countries.
@@GoogleAccount-if6pu being smart and intelligent Is not the same. Smartness Is mostly determined by genetics. IQ tests consists on math, logic, language, Speed. How do you expect an analphabet Person to be able to spot ortographical errors or reading math?
@@dominicmoras4283 There is no such thing as a "music" gene. Anyone who knows anything about genetics can tell you it's pseudoscience
I found a half sibling through Ancestry. He’s a cool dude.
That's awesome actually
@@ginajust-me2445 Yeah, it’s pretty cool that me and my other sibs found him.
I found 2 half siblings through 23 and Me. My dad was busy.
@@darladawn1111 Vitamin E tablets will do that. LOL!
@@FriedPi-mc5yt haven't heard that one 😆
"Let's find the most accurate DNA test!"
*this video is sponsored by Circle DNA
LOL
I peeped that too 🤔
@@michagabo8819 what
@@michagabo8819 pretty sure they said in the Bible that no one knows when he’s coming back. So…
Oh never noticed that. Lost interest now
A very thorough and informative video Matt. I’ve done DNA tests with Ancestry and MyHeritage. My results overall showed my genetic profiles being different for both. As one example, Ancestry has me at 90% Italian whereas MyHeritage has me at 75%. I prefer Ancestry because I’m quite familiar with their family tree tools and resources but MyHeritage has similar great tools Ancestry doesn’t such as a Tree Consistency Checker that points out date anomalies with family member profiles. Nonetheless, it’s all quite interesting and intriguing. ❤️🇮🇹🇨🇦
Myheritage I heard is famous for being highly inaccurate so I would suggest you do 23andme
your 82.5% Italian
A shame that these companies do not combine their databases for even better results.
Plus they allegedly sell your DNA to suspicious third parties
They do, most sites allow users to upload their own DNA data results from another company and they are then able to extract even more information.
@@blendeadgod but you need to pay yet another subscription then.
@@HansMilling depends on the site
You also wave your right to any privacy or protection of your dna as soon as you export it from the company site that you did your DNA with. That stopped me dead in my tracks ha.
tip: obtain your enemy's dna to find their weaknesses
That's like learning other countries' way of living and stuff like that so you can be racist online more accurately. (BTW this is a joke don't take it seriously)
@@itzvaniushi4163 racist
@@itzvaniushi4163 racist
@@itzvaniushi4163 racist
@@itzvaniushi4163 I learn other peoples histories and cultures so I can be racist more accuratly 😎
I did the 23 and me test, but I got it for free as I have Lupus and they were looking for people with it to study their DNA. If you have a chronic or rare illness I’d say try and see if they have any studies open. You might be able to get a free test.
The same goes for some family associations that are looking for specific descendants. Google "DNA " and your surname to get to a website (usually on FTDNA's website, but maybe others) to find out.
I actually received the same from them with a study on depression.
@Oona Craig true.. CCP wrote several papers on this before buying all these companies up, now military in China has these databases.. why? Why was Covid 19 ? Sus
Huh, wish I'd known that before I paid out for mine, I have Ehler's Danlos Syndrome and I'd love to contribute to research, even if it's just something like this.
Thank you for adding to the DNA info base - it may help someday. Thank you for passing the tip. And best, best wishes for your health.
"Ancestry" helped my sister and I discover more about our Mexican father's heritage/ancestry. It's a great service.
Glad finding unknown relatives has gone well for most. Mine didn't. My aunt had a child in HS (late 1930s) and gave the child up for adoption. He contacted us almost 50 years later and was shunned by her and most of the family. My dad embraced him and it caused a deep family rift. Cherish your relatives, known and unknown.
It was a time of immense shame and ostracism for any girl pregnant out of wedlock. She could be considered unmarriagable. So she would likely felt that shame all over again when he turned up, and just denied it.
I hope you feel proud of your father who embraced this man as a new member of your family.
Perhaps listen to the story of the singer Mary Gauthier when she tracked down her birth mother, very sad.
Go well.
Props to your father!
Yes, I found out I have a half-sister after finding my mom after thirty years. She resents the hell out of me. She is such a horrible person that I just can't deal with her so many times these stories don't always turn out well! It is a shame.
@@janetarmstrong7010 Hope you find peace through the whole thing.
@@ParArdua aww the excuses.
My wife took ancestry’s test. She knew she had a father half sister and brother somewhere. After the test she was contacted by a relative on that side. Before I knew it she found out where they lived and her and her brother were able to see her father she hadn’t seen in 40 years. She also found out she had another brother she didn’t know about. It was pretty neat!
has that affected your relationship?
Kinda messed up
I would be glad if you would answer, because I am currently struggling with a similar situation and I'm curious about what other people have experienced
Wowwww
I found out my daddy wasn't my daddy
My Dad is from Wales and my Mom is from Hungary , makes me Well Hung.
Or a hungry whale.
@@DomenBremecXCVI 😂😂
@@DomenBremecXCVI A whale? So... he's still Well Hung..?
Sorry I had to 🥲
Are you single? ;)
@@nunya257 ayo 📸
I JUST did My 23andMe last night for the first time! It's in the mailbox outside now! I'M SO EXCITED!
I am 53yo, I just posted my ancestry sample. I "know" what it is going to say, some of which is a family "dirty secret" (not to me, I'm proud, and looking forward to validation. There might also be something interesting and I'm waiting with bated breath!
Your results?
I took the AncestryDNA test. I bought it when they were having a holiday sale. It was totally worth it! I learned so much about my family, and am still discovering things, months later. I learned that there were some family ethnicity secrets which were actually quite funny. My Wx-Sister-in-law passed away unexpectedly, and never told anyone who my Niece’s biological father was. My Niece did the AncestryDNA test, and found him! It was a wonderful surprise for both of them!
You just can't begin such an interesting story and leave it like that. Did that man live near or far away from you? did you expect him to be her father? Do they look alike? Has he got a family? Please... :D
i did too, i ordered may 6th. and i’m yet to get my package sadly. It is now June 22nd and I still don’t have my kit. Starting to think i’ll never get it :(
@@angelito2144 She told us all we need to know. They don't have to give all the details.
@@barbarahedges1791 they do, they should, they must
@@angelito2144 Agree, I thought the same thing.
Another classic one is finding out that your adoptive father is actually your biological father.
OOOF did that happen to you? 😮
@@lightyagami3492 No, I haven´t even taken one of these tests, but stories about this are very numerous.
But how?!?! 🤯🤯🤯🤯 they had to know
I have heard about these.
Mum cheats on husband/partner
Mum thinks other dude is father
Husband/partner stays to raise child.
Mum was wrong and husband/partner was father.
Isn't that better than he is vour biological mother? Hm, that would be a nice plot for the Twighlight Zone! (Is that still a thing?)
Watch a professional genealogist reacting to my video: ua-cam.com/video/QPnEnoGxk4s/v-deo.html
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This was indeed useful.
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I'm Black British. Which is the best for me?
Well organized and sequenced presentation! You are wonderful at conveying information. A talent.
I’ve taken 23andMe and AncestryDNA, my results were almost the same, except 23andMe was more detailed in the breakdown, but Ancestry Thruline feature for comparing your family tree with your DNA matches to see how you are related to your matches (if their tree is public).
I took those two as well and got some pretty different results, I'm Hispanic for reference and ancestryDNA said I was 12% French... not sure I buy that
GOOGLE now has your DNA info. Executives are married to owners at 23amd Me. Stop giving out your DNA.
@@Retotion You do realise that France is very close to Spain don't you? It might just be that the way they've classified the DNA they previously had was from just on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees as French, or that there's been some mixing back generations and generations ago with someone who has French genes in them but was Spanish. There will be inaccuracies in this and there will be some shared DNA between France and Spain so I'm not surprised at all. If you take these tests you have to go into it with an open mind otherwise what's the point? None of us really know our ancestors from the Middle Ages, for example, maybe earlier. 10% sounds a lot, but it isn't, 90% I assume is from where you expected so I would just write it off, though there will be margins of error in all these tests.
@@chrisschiller1163 You realize that anyone can get your DNA by finding any number of the hairs that fall off your body everyday, right
@@Retotion The Iberian Peninsula is not too far from France so it’s possible
Can we get a chart on who's most and least likely to keep, sell or use our DNA for purposes we didn't contemplate or give permission for?
Exactly....!
@Ryan oh ok … so eventually the Chinese know everything about us…
Yes Please ! Thiiis is so important !
Seconded.
@Ryan it’s not that I dont trust Chinese scientist I don’t trust their government but I’m not sure I trust mine anymore more
Thanks for this. I’ve been thinking about it for a while. You’re helping me decide!
Have you decided yet? If so may I know what, and why?
My son did his DNA, was contacted by my brother from another mother. It is so wonderful to have a brother I didn’t know about . We are both adopted. Same father different mother best news ever.
I found two half sisters by different mothers. One died in 2013. But I found these sisters through my ancestry family tree, not DNA. But right now Ancestry is processing my DNA sample. I believe they keep these samples private.
OH SO MAYBE YOU HAVE A BRAND NEW MOTHER WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TAKE IT TO A DOCTOR / MABYE SHE NEEDS TO SEE A DOCTOR /@@sydfrissell
Back in 1977 I told my girlfriend, a biology major, that I sneeze when I look at the sun. She scoffed, but later reported to me, amazed, that she learned sneezing when looking at the sun is a hereditary trait. Weirdly, as far as I know, I'm the only one in my family who does it.
Actually.If u need to sneeze look at any* bright light. And...if u are in a situation is which emotional like u feel like crying. Look up****also into a light if available. This helps. This was a trait sometimes used on labor & delivery wards when new mom's felt like crying. This is very old school. Yet. It works & unfortunately still unemployed.!
Me too!!😂😂😂…. Every time!
Same here. I didn't know it was an inherited trait.
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its been around since the Air Force taught that to pilots to prevent a sneeze
At age 73 I found my natural father and his family through AncestryDNA three years ago.
Omg congrats
In a cemetery? J/K
@@zefallafez not cool dude
@@zefallafez lol
@@zefallafez Bruh you're messed up
Well done! Best overview of DNA genetics. Actually made haplogroups easy to understand. Thank you, UC.
since people are talking about their experiences :
after not taking any tests i found out both my parents were downstairs, it's such a miracle, i've been living in my bedroom my whole life !
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thats fucking pog bro
Never stepped outside why are you to heavy to get out of bed?
Congratulations to you bro 🎊. I can't imagine the joy you must have felt when you first discovered your parents 🥺❤️.
Bless TF UP my G' ✊ 💯
But are you really sure that they are your biological parents? 😂
I found out I had a long lost cousin from this test (23andme). She was my age, my uncle and her mom had a fling and she got pregnant without telling him. She wanted to meet us, and her dad. I called my cousin to break the news about her long lost sister. Long story short, my family was so excited to meet her. She and my uncle talk everyday, he was able to meet his new granddaughter. My cousin is so in love with her sister. I couldn’t imagine her not being in our lives. I’m so thankful for these tests ❤️
It's surprisingly common that the mother hides the pregnancy from the father. That should be illegal.
@@rowenkylee5627 hmmm wonder why they do it? Duh, men not knowing they have kids? How?
Was it a 'basic' test or did you have to pay more?
Wow. Is your aunt out of the picture?
@@supreme5580 nope! She welcomed her with open arms. Even made her a family photobook
As a PSA-- when getting a DNA test that includes health information, that information can count as a "pre existing condition" even if it hasn't become apparent yet and therefore insurance companies can treat it as such. As for life insurance this information can potentiality make you uninsurable so if you intend to get a DNA test that gives you this information make you have your insurance in order before getting your test.
That’s very interesting thank you!
Techincally speaking the DNA info cannot be used by your insurance company because of GINA - Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act. Doesn't mean they wont' try it.
What in America?
False. Go back to Facebook.
I was simply passing along info I learned while studying for my life insurance license. If you are say 40 years old, but discover because of genetics you have a high probability of developing an illness that could have you dead within the next 30 years, and are made aware of this of this likelihood, most insurance companies may pass on insuring you rather then risk the payout.
Wow! Very helpful "lay-of-the-land" information, offered with unusual candor and neutrality. Thank you. I did Ancestry, and am happy with the ancestral results and welcome possible surprises. I think I'll now additionally pop for Circle about health. At 62, the die is cast, but I'm interested in anything that could help me steer for a healthier / happier/ longer future.
I wanted to build a family tree using 23 and me so I purchased 6 tests while they were on sale. The combination of DNA and health. I was able to help my mom find several first cousins that had been adopted out when they were very small children, as well as several of my mom's half siblings. She was very into genealogy and enjoyed talking to them. Unfortunately she passed away about 6 months later, but it makes me happy knowing she got to experience meeting family members she hadn't seen for almost 60 years.
How much was it per test when you got them? I was about to buy the health and ancestry one right now it's on sale for 149 down from 199 but I'm wondering if I should just wait for a better deal
@@jimmyna5644 They usually take it down to $100 for Black Friday, but never less.
I love how you lay out your analysis and comparisons. It is exactly how I research and compare things that I am interested in. Your presentations are so easy to understand and are very clear and concise. Excellent work.
Ancestry’s settler group accuracy is incredible. They correctly pinpointed that my ancestors were settlers of Minnesota, despite that only happening in the mid to late 1800’s! That is crazy accurate because I had no idea my ancestors from that period had enough descendants where they could tell I was related to that settler group.
How far did it go, I mean timeline-wise? Thank you
And X YZs real name is Ollie.... Ya' yabethca.... hard to believe...
@dev null Well, I'm no shill and I can say that the settler route accuracy with the one I tried was absolutely spot on to the old fashioned paper trail genealogy my Uncle had compiled many years ago (pre computer - can you imagine). They were a classic specific movement group - early Scots-Irish to N.Eng. into Penn. down to the Carolinas across the mountains into Ky and Tenn. (classic Daniel Boone family route as well).
I live where they started settling, south west Minnesota.
I agree. My Ancestry results showed my grandfather's Scots-Irish roots all the way back to the settlers of Appalachia around the mid 1700s. Was incredible to find out!
When I heard "unless you're a Hapsburg" I choked and blew coffee out my nose... thanks for that.
Clever, but not "blowing coffee out your nose" clever...
As an adopted person (now adult) a big "to know" about meeting biological parents in person is that they put you up for adoption for a reason. It could have been age, economy, their own failing health and worry of your future, a fallout with the other parent leading to losing attachment, and more. If it was straight up "I did not want a child" that sentiment doesn't exactly change that much in my experience. It was polite but they were NOT a parent because they had no other children so they did not act like a parent. It was a super pleasant, very nice meal with bio dad, whom is difficult to stay in touch and busy with a high paying job. (Tends to happen when you have no kids, lol.)
Bio Mom had other children so meeting her was a rollercoaster because she just felt eternal guilt and regret which is awkward because I sincerely loved my real parents (you know, the ones who really raised me- those will always be MY mom and MY dad.) So I basically told her she absolutely made the right choice, my life was wonderful, I loved my parents and they loved me truly, and it was okay. You could see the weight leave her shoulders. But some time later her psychological issues of lashing out and what not started to leak into our convos so I had to cut her out of my life- after all, I lived a few decades without her, and I will NOT stand for being treated poorly in the name of 'family.' Family is love, not blood alone.
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I'm adopted too, I never took a test, I keep going back and forth on if I want to take one or not. Supposedly, I met a sibling online, but we are so different that we don't talk a lot, but I am a talker, so I'm sure they found out more than they wanted about me haha and I did get some family info that helped. I am curious more on the health part than anything else though tbh.
You are right, my discovered mom turned out so narssasistic I have no desire to meet her.
You made the right choice sadly it wasn’t a June Cleaver relationship however it sounds like your Loving Supportive Adoptive Parents and you were the true winners.
I feel the same way. I was adopted by family relatives.
Growing up was difficult and psychologial hard to accept.
Been a grown woman now. All those issues were helead by time and having my own family. Adopted parents are gone now, and i thank God every day for everything they provided. More than a roof, they provided a strong faith in God. That's what i am greatful the most.
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Hope they are in Heaven enjoying Jesus due to all their sacrifices.
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"Are you from North America?"
"No I'm from Sou-"
"AH SO YOU ARE FROM EUROPE."
Being a white south american who lived abroad i had conversations like that in real life lol
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Since no other country calls themselves Americans it’s not really an abnormal statement! Never met anyone from Venezuela they call them selves in American. In the US it’s literally part of our name! Furthermore when I lived in France and no one ever asked me if I was from north or south America. I would think often skin tone (but not always) would definitely give it away! Although there are light-skinned folks throughout South America & Central America. Furthermore if somebody is of African dissent they are very rarely from South America. So this is a foolish “gotcha” statement!
@@kayjay3898 I'm under the impression you were thinking this is the usual quip folks use about the "American" appropriation by the US. This isn't it (I actually don't have an issue with that), I agree that if someone calls themselves American, they're almost certainly from the US. My joke above was just a way to point out that, in this video, they're trying to appeal to a broader audience by suggesting what's the best course of action based on where you live, but they only mention either North America (as opposed to the US) or Europe. While, in fact, there are many other countries that would be interested in a DNA test. I don't mean to fault the content creators so much as the DNA companies themselves for this. It's just how the market works, focus is where the money's coming from. But it is frustrating for us non-US/Europe residents that stuff comes first or is better in those places (especially considering European wealth as a consequence of colonial exploitation.....). Don't worry, you can keep calling yourselves Americans, your country's name doesn't really lend itself to anything different anyway... Unitedstatesian? Unitedstatish? Nah. American sounds better ;)
Further, I don't think I understand what you meant about people with African descent being very rarely from South America. Over 50% of the entire Brazilian population (the most populated country in South America) identifies with an African ethnicity...🤔But again, not sure exactly what you meant, so, elaborate? :)
@@kayjay3898 Argentina is more White than the USA
20:45 for the time savers
Thank you..
Fkn thank you
Doing the lords work 🙌
THANK YOU!
I was going to say he talks so freaking slow I sped it up to 1.5 and it's still taking forever to get the point 😂
Thank you for such a detailed review of DNA tests!
I’ve already done a DNA test with Ancestry, but now I know I need to do one with MyHeritage as well. Very informative and helpful!
I'd like to see an updated version of this. We would not only be able to compare the changes between these like before, but also the changes each company has made over these 2 years
I’m a somewhat early-model test tube baby, I’ve been torn for a while on sating my burning curiosity and not upsetting my father who I suspect has always been a bit sensitive about the topic to the point where I didn’t even find out about it till a few years ago and only then after figuring out some things that didn’t add up.
(Spoiler, an A and O blood type couple can’t make someone who’s AB)
It's great you care about his feelings. There's always the option of just taking the test and knowing for your own purposes and maybe filling him in on anything later on if he seems more open to talking about it. Real family is ultimately something we choose more than anything we're born into.
@@justinstewart4889 This. Find out for yourself and just don't tell him since they wanted to keep it secret.
Not to sound insensitive but it’s important that you know. I think it’s very selfish of your father to try and keep something like that from you.
No matter the case the truth is never easy to swallow. It’s better though to know the truth than nothing at all.
What the hell are y’all talking about don’t make out his father out as a selfish prick just from a few sentences he said. Ugh, it’s normal to be nervous and have mixed feelings about your adopted child’s birth parents. If you really are interested and you probably are, talk to your parents about your desire to learn, and take the test. If they refuse, then you can still take it but I doubt they will.
@@iguicc I never said their father was a prick. I simply said his actions are selfish… which they are. With holding information due to ones own personal feelings is blatantly selfish regardless of how you paint it.
At the end of the day this person has a right to know about the truth. It’s their life and if this is something that is truly bothering them then they deserve the right to look into it and seek answers regardless of how their adoptive parents feel. 🤷🏾♀️
He just took a DNA test - turns out he's 100% that incredibly valuable voice on the interwebs.
Hey i like little mix to
Oh yeah!
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@@joebellingham9926 That is Lizzo
I love all of them tho
I assumed he's 100% human.
Just imagine eating before the test and the results come: You're 13% wheat.
Great video. Lots of useful information opposed to the other "me-me-me" videos out there. Thank you for your thoroughness and time vested in this information!!!
I found a first cousin through Ancestry DNA. Our dads are brothers. My dad was adopted, and her dad left when she was little. Neither of us knew our dads' family. We made a plan and I drove from Michigan to SW Iowa to meet her. It was a great trip.
Wow that’s really cool glad you got to learn more about yourself and meet a family member through ancestry dna
My sister and I took the DNA tests and we found out we are only half siblings. Given how we both look it is clear I am the odd man out.
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Ha! A similar thing happened to my significant other‘s brother. There was always whispers in the family that he had a different father than my significant other and their sister, but it wasn’t talked about beyond it being a joke rumor - the DNA test confirmed it as being fact though. They have an idea of who his father MIGHT be, but they are not sure. Unfortunately their mother died quite a few years ago, so they can’t ask her. Pretty crazy stuff.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 The same with me. My parents are all deceased, but, thru DNA testing, I found two half brother. Now, we have dinner together once a week.
I would never meet those assholes who left me and i am adopted.
It's interesting how popular these tests are in America, where most everyone is an immigrant, because in Europe I know my family tree is just Irish and Scottish lol
That's really the big appeal aye. Similar thing in Aus where I live. Everyone's heard stories but not enough concrete evidence exists for them to know just how true they are😂
That’s what my mom thought too, till she found out no Irish just Scottish and Norwegian
"It's interesting how popular these tests are in America, where most everyone is an immigrant" a huge amount of the population is not immigrant though, rather, they are descendants from kidnapped and enslaved people and therefor literally don't know their heritage. Black americans and Native americans are not immigrants.
You'd be surprised what your heritage might be, even in Europe. I took a test from MyHeritage and found out I was 23% Celtic (Scotland, Ireland, Welsh) and 16% English even though I live in the Netherlands and my closest living family are all Dutch. I have no idea where the 'extra' DNA came from lol
@Ignacio Front I reckon you answered your own question. You KNOW you're German. Your family probably have been for centuries (I'm assuming). Most Americans, because of its founding as somewhere AGAINST British society, or because of slavery, haven't a clue where they're really from. coz realistically only Amerindians are from America historically. Therefore people get these tests
"Unless you're a Hapsburg."
I laughed out loud.
*Habsburg
@@otakuofmine I wrote Habsburg first, but Google wouldn't accept either of them
@@adriantsang3838 i only know it like that, learned it that way in school.
@@GDMiller419 typical Google. no worry than. just wanted to help in case :)
@@otakuofmine thanks!
I love being told that the best option for me is the cheapest one. 10/10 vídeo lol
I found on AncestryDNA two half-sisters of my mother's she never talked about. I also found that my parents were third half-cousins.
life sometimes, lol
@@midnattsol6207 🤣🤣
is it alabama then
@@yvngheartz careful...
I found out that my my great great grandmother's grandfathers were brothers. Not many people living in Florida in the early 1800s ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The one I took said I’m descended from Spanish nobility. I’m sticking with that one.
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Well, you got me beat! My grandfather was Ralph Coffey McIntyre. HIS grandfather was Colonel James A. Coffey, the founder of Coffeyville, Kansas.
@@ThomasKent1346 That’s cool! I’m descended from very minor nobility who were given a royal land grant in Mexico sometime in the way back, I’d have to look it up again. I’m sure if I tried to contact them (if they’re still around) they’d politely but firmly escort me off the property. It is fun knowing who and where we came from, though.
Seeing how our kings have liked the act of mating, that's not that impressive.
@@robot4jarvis836 True. Doesn’t even include a tiara.
I did 23andMe and then uploaded my raw data to MyHeritage. That connected me with a half sister less than a year younger than me. We grew up in the same town. To say I was shocked was an understatement
That happened to a friend, and the other family, in the next state, has become very close to him and his family.
My own result was extremely boring. I get notifications of 3-5th cousins with 1% shared DNA.
Such a well formulated explanation giving expert guidance. Thanks!
I went to My Heritage, and I was right, once my roots go back to Portugal. My last name came from a small village in Portugal, called Vila de Borba. As a Brazilian, the results seemed accurate.
@JesusChristChristian King o/Rome, &Earth they're in no way related. Vila comes the Latin word villa which means big house / country house.
Vile also comes from Latin, from the word villis which means worthless, which later became vile in Old French. The meaning of foul is a much more recent one.
It also has nothing to do with the video or this comment, so what are you on about?
@JesusChristChristian King o/Rome, &Earth go away weird christian
@JesusChristChristian King o/Rome, &Earth no they are not? do you know what is a vila? XD
@JesusChristChristian King o/Rome, &Earth vile has nothing to do with vila. Just read Marta Santos's reply and you will see
@JesusChristChristian King o/Rome, &Earth Borba? Are you out of your mind. Just shut up
The "special paper" is just an absorbent sheet in case the sample leaks in transit. It has nothing to do with freshness, but is required when shipping biologic/biohazardous materials.
-Someone who packs infectious disease testing samples from blood donors
That makes more sense
@@rigjockey67 They are. You're supposed to wash reusable ones after each use and disposable ones should be thrown away.
@@rigjockey67 Biohazardous is better, but most people don't have access to those. Regular trash is fine as long as other people don't go digging for and huffing other people's masks.
@@rigjockey67 Hundreds of thousands of people have died. It's dangerous enough. It doesn't live long on fabric, but it does live long enough that if you cough, it'll spread through the air unless you wear a mask or at least cough into your elbow.
@@rigjockey67 I dare you to tell that to someone who's lost a child, partner or parent during this pandemic. I personally know people who's survived but now has long term health effects from the virus.
My mother is from italy and my dad is from italy, this makes me a perfect pizza maker.
FORZAAAA ITALIAAAA CAMPEONI D'EUROPA ANDIAMO ITALIAAAAAA CAMPIONI DA TUTTO IL MONDO 2022 AVANTI ITALIA AVANTIIIIIIIIITLIA
I’m from Poland and I don’t want to talk about that 😂😂😂😂
Lasagna!!
@@boru-cnc Polock Priest
Americans perfected pizza. I went to Italy while living in Germany a few years ago, ordered a pepperoni pizza and got a thin crusted flatbread with unseasoned tomato sauce on it. The pepperoni there? Large, 7 inch peppers that had no heat. They were slapped on the "pizza" whole. Also- NO cheese! Oddly enough, I ordered an "American Style" pizza in Freising and got exactly what I wanted. Then I kicked myself for being homesick when I still had so many German foods to sample.
I have taken 23 & Me, AncestryDNA and My Heritage. I find myself leaning more towards 23 & Me however I need to go back to AncestryDNA for confirmation. I think you need both. I’ve also found out that sharing is caring and sincerity is golden. I still have not found who I’m looking for, however I found a whole lot more than I could have ever imagined. Precious!
As i see it's not enough to take only one test... it should be combined with other test. So to your opinion, for the first time shall I take AncestryDNA?
@ ancestry was my first. I would take 23 & me first. It’s easier to share and get closer to family, you’ll see. I wish you all the best in your search.
My older half sister who was given up for adoption found me and other family members by doing the Ancestry dna test! We all knew about her already and I’m happy to have finally found her!
I’m a big cat person too! I watched the cat dna video first and now I’m trying to figure out if I can afford that for both my cats! 😂
Too funny. Then I realized you replied to yourself!🤣
HEY GIRL WHAT WAS THIS ? OLDER ?
That’s wonderful!
"I looked up my family tree, and found out I was the sap." - Rodney Dangerfield.
Nice one Ed, I am a big Dangerfield fan.
Brilliant.
His zingers will live longer than any of us.
I found that my family tree didn’t fork.
Poor Rodney Dangerfield. He don't get no respect. But he was very funny.
Im 27, a few years ago I did the ancestry test, I came across a lady in her 70s i knew nothing about yet somehow related. I contacted her, found out that my grandpa when stationed in Washington, (where I am from) he had a baby with another woman who was 16 at the time, months apart from when my grandma had her first child with him. Her mothers parents reached out to my granddad who denied the child and they parted ways after a strong exchange of words. My grandma is still alive. So I told my mom about all this, which she talked to all the siblings to see if they could come to agreement on if, they should tell my grandma about her. They agreed not to inform her.
But to think, I FOUND this. Crazy. Felt like a detective. DNA doesn't lie, my mom has a half sister, and I found her... 0.0
It’s amazing what doors this can open should you choose to do so
OOF. Have you and the others in-the-know talked to your grandpa about that?
Is your gpa alive?
Could you explain mor in detail how you found out about your grandma?
Glad I’m not part of your family. I can’t imagine people I spawned thinking they have the right to decide what I should and shouldn’t know.
Very interesting video. Thank you. I am fascinated by these tests, but am greatly concerned about privacy issues. Could you do a video that addresses this? Who gets access to your DNA data, particularly the health data? I see a future where insurance companies could do some nasty things with people's health data.
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Your voice ,your art of narration ,your command on English language, your coherent style of teaching & the background music of ur videos ,all are just FANTASTIC👌👍👌
He's not gay, ok?
@@adamuppsala1931 No one said that...What made you to say so?
@@muneebkhan7465 the way you're hungry for him.
@@adamuppsala1931Yes i am hungry to have the above said qualities about him in me...
@@muneebkhan7465 hahaha, deep inside indeed!! 👍🏻🤣 👉🏻👌🏻
I did the Ancestry one and found my biological family. It's been wonderful.
Yay! I’m so happy for you
That's great!
This video fails to mention the huge privacy concerns. Those companies should also be compared by how they handle the sensitive information they have about you. Are they deleting them after a certain time, or are they making more money by selling them? It has been known that at least one company is sharing them with law enforcement, some are funded by data leeches like google. Another thing is the ethical aspect of analysing DNA for potential diseases or other info. While hereditary disease can be identified in a lab, in many other cases it's only assumed that a single gene influences your risks or abilities, there is just not enough science backing these theories.
Yeah that's why I won't get one.
That's because this video is looking at which one tracks your genealogy the best. Not privacy.
@@ronjakowski5422 looooll
Good to see people mentioning the privacy concerns. One thing that you (and others) have missed though is that when you sign up for a DNA test, it doesn't just affect you. You are effectively identifying not just yourself, but your entire known biological family.
Your DNA could potentially be used by someone to target yourself or your family, whether they be corrupt employees, government agents (e.g. crackdowns on whistleblowers or activists), hackers, or insurance companies. And even if there are laws protecting against some of these today, that doesn't necessarily mean those laws are being followed, or that they will remain in effect for the lifespan of the database.
So if you're going to get a DNA test with one of these companies, please consult with your immediate family first to see if anyone has strong objections. The results are often not private, and can potentially put people in real danger, even if you consider yourself too boring to be at risk.
Some of them are supposed to have ties to the chinese government. Wouldn't be surprised if they used that data to find suitable organ "donors" among their (political) prisoners for harvesting and selling.
Very well narrated, one of the best narrators I’ve heard.