My parents had a baby when they were in HS. Mid 1960’s. So for 52 years they kept it secret. My new- older brother found us. He lived within a few miles of us our whole life. Had friends in common and his daughter lived on the same street as my parents. Finding out about this was shocking but we are all glad we have met! It’s just so crazy to have a whole piece of new family. My parents went from 6 grand kids to 14 overnight.....
Man the DNA lab must be a pretty drama filled place Scientist 1: ooooo got another secret affair lovechild Scientist 2: that’s nothing try switched at birth Scientist 3: checkmate got a family tree that looks more like family triangle
When you’re running and analyzing these tests, you just get a readout that is a bunch of DNA base pair letters. You then feed that into a computer database that then puts all the pieces together. Those results are also extremely confidential, none of the lab techs see the info, only the computer does, and then prints out the data to be packaged and sent out.
Was told all my life that I had American Indian ancestory on my fathers side...his mother was very dark skinned. Had my DNA test done...I had no trace of American Indian ancestory, but it did show I was 3% African Caribbean from Barbados! I guess back in the day it was more socially acceptable to say you were Indian instead of black. Blew me away! 😯
Still might have been some truth to that, indigenous peoples have been known to intermarry with blacks. It could be interesting to see what a couple other tests would say.
you would be correct in your guess. i can't explain the reason for it but people absolutely lied about being native because it was less "shameful" than being black
The exact same thing happened to me ! But I'm choosing not to tell my family what I discovered. My parents and grandparents are really proud of and love their heritage because theve grown up believing it was true. I'm not going to ruin that for them. It will upset them a lot so I'll probably just keep it to myself
@@MissEasyPeasySleasy most likely her mother’s parents (the grandparents) adopted him as their own and raised him as her brother. Happened a lot back in the day.
@@MissEasyPeasySleasy Sorry if it’s weird how late this reply is, but it probably means that his brother married his wife’s aunt. So the relation is through the wives and there aren’t any illegal familial relationships🥴
Yeah, I read one where the dad committed suicide finding out he was raising his friends daughters in a 11 year affair when he was at home most of the time and wasted his life on someone who gave up their dreams for.
I love how the majority of these end up with families happy to learn about their long lost relatives and absorbing them into the greater family group. Hella Wholesome!
A grandfather always insisted he was half French/half Canadian Cherokee. When a sibling did the DNA, turned out grandpa was a mix of Scandanavian/Scottish/Irish-basically British. Also, since his (and his brother's last name) last name was French, I can only assume that my great grandparents were running and hiding from something.
DNA tests are banned in France so there are no samples in the database to compare against. Results never show French ancestry. The best it can do is show a Celtic mix and that means French people will appear as a mix of British, Irish and Scandinavian and maybe a little Italian. This is what happened to my results. Google it for clarity.
My cousins boyfriend realized he was adopted when looking at childhood photos with my cousin and realized there were none of him as a baby. He asked his mom about it and she said “oh, I thought you knew.” Apparently, his bio mom had been writing him letters every month since he was born and his adoptive mom had been throwing them out. It turns out she gave him up because she was a) young, b) single (he’s in his late thirties so this was a while ago) and c) HAD CANCER. She’s still alive and they moved to Montana to be with her :)
@@droidmaker7932 sounds like a possible forced adoption i saw a lot of stories on reddit of family members or in-laws harassing single mothers in similar circumstances to give their child to an infertile woman just because the father either left or died.
I have a really cool picture: My Aunt, my grandma, great grandma and great great grandma. Also a year old boy. I asked dad, "Is that cousin Eddie?" "No, that's my sister's first son." "Oh. Wait. WHAT??", When she was 15 (This was the early 1950's) my dad's sister got pregnant by a 20 year old. They made them get married. They got divorced when the kid was 3 and the father got custody. He remarried and the stepmom raised the child. I don't know if she had any contact with her son after the divorce.
We found out my grandpa has 3 other children with 2 other women in 2 different states 🤷♀️ there are 2 daughters and a son. We couldn't find any pictures of the daughters but we found an OLD booking photo for the son and he is the spitting image of my grandpa. He was the best grandpa to me and spoiled me so 💜 so to think that he's got all these children whom he's had no contact with and they probably hate his entirety, is so confusing to me. You mean THIS LOVING MAN had these affairs/kids and left them in the past like yesterdays trash?? I just cannot believe it
I can absolutely relate. The disbelief is overwhelming and then confusion and self doubt... it’s a strange feeling. My heart goes out to you as some one who went through the same thing only it was my bio father :( Wishing you tons of love, happiness, healing, and health 💗🌻🥰 ☮️ Edit : a word
@@thisismycoolusername Wow your father? That's crazy. Unknown Siblings would be so intense. I'd be wondering if we are alike or look alike etc. That's even more crazy. Did you leave it be? Or pursue it? Well I hope you are doing good and coping ok 💜💜 prayers and good vibes your way 💖♥️💖
@@matthewhicks1574 he knows about the daughters. I'm not sure if he knows about the son. It would be his only son. But ya, He was around for the girls for a little bit but definitely didn't raise them like he did my mother.. I know they got older and began dating black men and my grandpa refused to speak to them because of that 😲😣it's been 35+? Years since then. He has dementia now and he has told me he doesn't understand how someone could hate someone based off their skin color. (Me:🤯🥴 "wut?") He is so anti racist now it is like a light switch... He gets angry at people for their racist remarks and the violence he sees on TV and going on in the world. It just shows me racism was taught to him and now he doesn't care if you're black, white, yellow or brown, we are all the same and I'm glad he finally sees that, I realize it's still too late to mend the relationships with his daughters that his racism ruined, but I hope he did feel some kind of remorse 😣
my former landlord and friend is adopted, he did a find my family years later, hes in his 40s, he finally found both parents, his adopted family is dutch, his real dad is French Canadian Métis , his real mom was a teen when she had him, his dad was 20 and not at all reliable, so adopton , he met both them last year, sadly his mom after a while didnt want to continued with the relationship bc hes so conservative and Catholic shes very much hard Liberal and hates anything religious , his real dad and him get a long well, but for 4 months his real dad turned his back on him, in a drunken stuper , but has since gotten back with my friend and still talk and has met the cousins. his dad is a brick layer and laughs at everything he says , it was weird , but over all seemed like a nice guy
When I did mine, I had to voice the fact that I knew there was a good chance the family that raised me wasn't actually related. Apparently, when they loaded the test results, I wasn't. They literally drew straws on who would tell me. Someone refreshed the page in a panic and it said I WAS related. Upon hearing this, I had to know. Grandpa got the short straw. Everyone thought I'd take it best from him. The funny part is, I voiced it first, right after the test was sent off, and wasn't TOO butthurt over the possibility. A bug in the site at the exact moment they went to view my results said no common relatives that was resolved just SECONDS later. Our best guess is that the results literally went online right as they clicked them and not everything had finished loading into the database at the time. When I did my dog a year and a half later, through EMBARK, they sent out the health results a day before everything else (so you actually look at them, because why not?). Well, that's how I discovered my Chow Chow has a Doberman in her lines: she has a copy of a DCM gene. Dilated Cardiomyopathy is very common in Dobermans. I knew this because that was my college study area. Didn't even need to google a list of breeds, it had to be Doberman, some ridiculous number have it (40% by some estimates). It was.... kind of shocking. A day later, results are ready, sure enough she is 5.5% Doberman. It was humorous. Also, for those curious, she is half chow... as are both of her parents. Pretty interesting that she looks very new-age chow (no wrinkles) and yet she's only half. And she literally doesn't carry the chow color genes at all (no sable, no recessive black; she has agouti and points, and she's a dominant black). She's a shelter dog so I wasn't expecting a purebred but she's pretty darn cool. DNA results are fun, but scary.
My family is complicated. We had an older sister who found us when I was 20, she was 26. At that time, DNA testing was just beginning to be used. We didn't know if she was our cousin or our sister. The DNA test confirmed she was our sister. Unfortunately, in 2015, she died from cancer. She had a younger half-sister who had been living with her and her husband, finishing out her high school years as home with our sister's birth mom was chaotic. When our sister died, our sister's husband decided to have a relationship and a child with the (much younger) half sister. At this point, none of us really want to do anymore testing.
I was adopted, and I found my biological mother and grandparents thanks to an Ancestry DNA kit. I also discovered that my biological father was fathered through an affair, and that my great grandmother was adopted. A year ago at this time, I didn't know who my biological family was. Now I'm filling out a family tree that shows who my ancestors in 15th century England were.
Several family members were convinced that my grandpa had a different dad than his brother, but nobody ever knew for sure. Turned out to be true, great grandma had an affair lol.
My late father always said he grew up in an orphanage so I took a DNA test to see if I could find out something about my dad's parents. It turned out my dad was really a teenage runaway. I was able to connect with cousins and learn a lot about my dad's parents. It seems like they were decent people. His extended family always wondered what happened to him.
@@user-vm6oz6wt5g Yes, he changed his name and said he grew up in a completely different place than he really did. Before I took the DNA test I tried to contact the orphanage he said he grew up in but kept being told there was never an orphanage there. Now I know why that was such a dead end.
@@user-vm6oz6wt5g My father had been dead many years. What is amazing is that the cousins I met still talked about the uncle they heard about all their lives that ran off. The extended family still talked about him even after everyone who actually knew him was dead.
@@mjrmanson1 Oh wow. That must have been so amazing for his family to finally know after all those years what happened to him! That really brought me to tears. It must have been so wonderful for them to make contact with you. I just did a bunch of research myself and shared it with my grandmother. She was never really sure her father was her father but it turns out she was. I found all kinds of information for her and just put her in touch with her cousin. I am so thankful that this technology exists. Its truly amazing.
I never knew my father or his family so I took the ancestry test. When I got my results back I matched with a half sister and found out my neighbor growing up a very nice old Sicilian lady was my grandma. That explained why I'm the only one in my entire extended family with out blonde or red hair.
My mom left my biological father when she was pregnant with me. A few years ago, my sister took a test from 23 and me. We’re up to 3 half siblings so far. I don’t have any desire to meet them or my father. I was raised by my fantastic step dad, and am now a step dad myself. To me, family is more about the people who are there for you when you need them than the people who happen to share your dna.
We found out my aunt isn’t my grandpa’s daughter. Grandparents admitted they were swingers in the hippy era and that’s probably how it happened. Was a fun Christmas.
I did a DNA test and found that a guy down the street from where I lived as a child is my half-sibling. I've never met him, but remember hearing his family's name a lot. Since all the people of our parents generation are deceased, we didn't pursue it. I suspect it was my (our?) father fooling around with his mother...both were married to other people at the time.
My friend was an adoptee and did a dna test. Found no one closer than 4-5th cousin...except he was matched to...a son. Turns out a casual girlfriend from when he was a teen had had a baby and gave him up.
I was able to prove a family rumor by accident. I took a DNA test and matched as a cousin to a girl I had never heard of. We got to talking and she told me she was adopted by two doctors but had met her biological mother just not her biological father. She said bio mom's name and I knew instantly. It was the 17 year old girl my 40 year old uncle had gotten pregnant. He always denied it and she did too but she moved away and had the baby without his knowledge. Not to mention this girl was his step-daughter. Yeah. He got his step-daughter pregnant. Also found out that my 3rd great grandfather was born out of wedlock and adopted by his grandparents. I was able to find his biological father by accident when I stumbled upon a birth record for him and once I added him to my tree I got tons of DNA matches linked to him.
I have two stories. My fiancé was always told he was Irish and Cherokee. Not a drop of Native American, barely Irish, mostly Scottish, but part Nigerian. Odd but okay. My mutt of a grandfather has dark skin and curly thick hair. People always ask what race he is. He thought he was just English, French, and Native American. He turned out to be French, Spanish, Swiss, English, Scottish, Native American, and Central American. And we also found out my grandma has some Middle East in her.
Not exactly a dark family secret, but one of my aunts who married into the family is adopted. She took a DNA test and found someone who could be her biological sister (plus same style of adoption story too with the way they were surrendered to an orphanage in a very specific way). The two got in contact, and it turns out they BOTH have 4 kids AND the kids are around the same ages as each other's kids AND they are two boys and two girls.....AND.. The kids LOOK like each other. It's kind of creepy ngl.
I was told we had Native American in our family (we're black). Turns out we're part European. And now it annoys me whenever they claim we're part Native American when we're not. 🙄
Found out that my great grandmother was adopted, so my sister and I went digging around for more details in the attic of the house that our grandmother grew up in (where our parents now live) and hit the mother load of family secrets- she wasn’t adopted legally she was basically trafficked out of Germany before ww1. She was able to speak 3 languages- German, English and Polish and used to paint pictures of her home village- which everyone thought were paintings of the Yorkshire countryside where she used to go for holidays until we found out the truth.
I’m always kinda freaked out by the idea of a DNA test bc according to my mom her grandfather’s entire family lead double lives, and the family that we know about is scattered across the US anyways, so I could be potentially related to pretty much anybody
basically my grandmas sister had a baby out of wedlock with a not great man and at the time this was a big nono, so she gave the baby up and felt horrible about it, my grandmas sister died in 2019 and never was able to find her daughter, about 5 months after her death the daughter is able to find us and contacts my grandma (who at this point was the basically the only living person who knew about all this as she never told anyone anything, only my grandma, and my grandmas parents) and my gran kinda breaks down and tells my mom everything, so then grans sisters kids get to learn all this and after are shocked but also very welcoming to new sister. My gran and her have been in regular contact but due to covid any trip for her to come meet us was delayed. Though finally yesterday she landed in her half siblings state and they all got to meet in person. I myself get to meet her and her daughter in like 3 days so looking forwards to that.
19:21 Similar backstory I've heard for my father's side. My ancestor was the son of a lord (I forget by which loch) who got disowned when he got a maid pregnant. That side of the family also ended up in Glasgow.
Same thing with my family... found a brother from an affair (only mom knew but couldn’t prove) and a sister that still remains a mystery. I think about her often as she took down all her info and eventually deleted her account when we tried to locate her. Her initials are JH. That’s all I know... but I wish more than anything she had wanted to meet me as badly as I wanted to meet her. I love my new baby brother and his family and really wish I had the same closure with my new sister (don’t even know if she is older or younger). JH if you ever see this, I hope you know I love you anyway!♥️
Wasn’t a DNA test, just known family history, but on my moms side, her moms two uncles (brothers) were involved in WW2. One ended up in a prison camp (Don’t know which) and the other ended up in the SS stationed AT said prison camp. After the war they never spoke to each other until they died.
Turns out my maternal grandfather…ahem…got around…and we just recently discovered that my mother has not one, but three sisters! (She grew up with her older sister and younger brother. My new aunt had been talking to my grandpa for months, and the paternity test came back positive. So now I also have a new aunt! We found out a few years back that she has another sister, but unlike my new aunt, this sister sadly wants nothing to do with the family)
My father is a result of a ffair his mother cheated on her husband who was overseas and my father was a result we never did a DNA test and unfortunately my father passed away but I'm going to do one soon as I come up with the funds I'm going to do one
Ours is a mess . We found out we had family here in the states ...they don't wanna talk to us because that would mean their great grandfather had a affair. Go back further , our European family members don't wanna talk to us because we " abandoned the home country " ( great grandparents left because the eldest sibling got everything ) and father back still we are related to Prussian Nobility .
This video got me thinking about my Nana’s husband. I spent most of my early life believing he was my bio grandfather. My mom tried to explain to me when I was young, but I didn’t get it till years later. It took me so long partly because child innocence but I think part of it was also that the stepfather had stepped into the role perfectly enough that both my mom and Aunt called him Dad by the time I was born. If I do an ancestry DNA test, I don’t know the name of the flake. Even if he’s still alive by the time I want to take a test, I don’t want to meet him.
I found out in 09 that my father wasn’t my bio father. My mother had an affair and I’m the product of it. Everyone in the family knew. EVERY PERSON. Best kept secret on the planet. It explained his behavior towards me after I had my first child. My mom was angry at me cause it revealed she wasn’t the perfect person she acted like. My husband and I researched and thought we had found my bio dad in the Army’s registry of the fallen in Vietnam. Fast forward to 2018, at the tender age of 51,I took AncestryDNA test just for SnGs. My bio father was alive and well in Cali. I always wondered why my dad would say to me, your mother really likes soldiers. I had no clue. My mom is gone and so is the man I called dad for 42 years.
Found out 40 minutes ago that my cousin is my half sister cause my dad is a piece of shit and cheated on my mom with her older sister 🙃 Teo of the people she trusted most betrayed her
@@olymolly3637 I’ve noticed but... God I hope that... That just means grandpa put his name on the certificate and not an cheating with mother/father in law situation
I have a half brother from my mom's previous marriage and we've grown up treating each other like full siblings. It never made a difference to us. I have another brother who's younger and has both the same parents as me but the 3 of us are all equal to who to our mom and dad. My dad always treated my older brother as his son just as much as us. When he married my mom he had another kid and he never thought less of him. I also have 2 half sisters from my father but none of us have ever met them they have nothing to do with anyone in our family and live really far away so we don't know them. My mom would treat them like us to if they were around but they are adult and never come near us and live in other countries I think
A buddy of mine has two daughters and has told me whenever they used to fight he would tell them to stop fighting because they were sisters and that he knows this because the mom told him that they both have the same father, but never specified if it was him. He doesn't want to do a DNA test because they're already old enough that it really doesn't matter and rather not know. He would laugh when he tells the story because his daughters get quiet and have a confused look. And say that it's messed up after laughing.
Me and my mom took DNA tests (dad wasn't interested and it was a two for one deal, plus I wanted to know about my background). I found out via my fathers side that I have some interesting European blood (there's the usual English, some Scottish, a bit of Irish...but there's German and Welsh...that was a surprise). And mother's side was even more interesting. A little background. My grandpa was Greek and my bio-grandma was...idk. The interesting part is my bio-grandma was a whore. She had three daughters (that our family knew of), mom being one of them. The eldest was "adopted" (a result of an affair...so it was known she wasn't my grandfathers daughter), but my mom and her other sister were thought to be related to grandpa. Nope. All three aren't related to grandpa. So after all this time of thinking that grandpa was her father, my mom found out via DNA testing that nope, he wasn't (though she still says he was and always will be regardless of blood). It was a bit surprising for her even knowing her mom was a whore. Anyways back to the surprise for me. The surprise was I'm a little bit Norwegian (though my fair skin and blond hair are obvious...didn't get those lovely blue eyes though...green eyes). I think that was more from my bio-grandma then bio-grandpa whomever he was (we still don't know). Another surprise is the eldest of the sisters found out she had a whole family of siblings out there (via her father and the shared mother my aunts and mother have). So yes technically my mom is semi related to those siblings, my one aunt is more closely related. So whoever was my mothers father (as well as the other aunt), they didn't have any other children...that we know of. Maybe one day we'll find out more as more people take tests.
When my parents were dating, dad told mom early on that it was entirely possible he had a couple of other kids out there, but he wasn't sure. I'm still waiting to see if DNA testing proves that to be true.
Also: pre-med student (have taken genetics class) two brown eyed parents CAN make a blue eyed baby. Brown eyes is dominant (BB) and blue eyes is recessive (bb); however both parents are heterozygous (Bb); there is a 50% chance that both parents will pass down the b trait and make a bb (blue-eyed) baby. Edit: I meant 25% not 50%
My daughter has hazel eyes like me and her partner has brown eyes, their son has very blue eyes like her father and brother in law, genetics is a trip.
Very good point! My dad was dark (Sioux heritage) and my mom is pretty pale. He had dark brown eyes and hers are light blue. My brother has brown eyes and mine look like my mom's. After learning about genetics in middle school, I assumed that Dad's side had a "honkey in the woodpile". After getting some genealiogical information from his half-sister, turns out it's true. We're descended from a white boy taken in and raised by the tribe.
ya know sometimes I wonder if I have a half sibling cause before my mom and dad met, my dad was in the army and married someone and idk if they did it or not then my dad ended up getting out of the army and they divorced then he met my mom and had my sister and i so like ya know it could be a possibility
God, now I need to ask my mom about how she found my grandma. My mom was adopted and found my grandma sometime when she was in college in the 90s. My bio grandma and grandpa had her when they were both 18 and still in high school; plus it was the very early 70s so sex, let alone babies before marriage would have still been a scandolous topic Mom soon found out that she has a full sister (auntie R) as well as a half brother on my grandpa's side (uncle T). uncle T has another half sibling who they share a mom with (aunt J), so though she and aunt J are not related to each other, my mom still considers her as a sister. My mom is still very close to her adopted brothers and sisters so I've been able to have a tightly nit yet very big family.
very quick update. my mother has given me the story! when my mom was still in college, she found out the name of the lady was involved in coorinated her adoption through her professors helping her, the lady's name was Brandshaw and it turned out that her roomate (who I call my auntie N) knew Brandshaw, and so they drove to her location which was surprisingly close to her college. Upon meeting Brandshaw, it was discovered that my grandma had sent letters adressed to my mom all throughout her childhood (one mentioning that she had a sister, my aunt R, complete with a photo) and this lady kept them! She didn't want to send them to my mom because she "wanted to coordinated the reunion" (reasons as to why Brandshaw would do this my mom has no clue on since Brandshaw never even talked to my mom and she had to find her all on her own). even when my mom did have access to photos of the letters, stuff was heavily censored. However, certain identifying features went past the censorship, like the name of my grandma and aunt R, My mom and auntie N did some cyberstalking (since my aunt R has a very one of the kind name) and found the last name of my aunt R as well as connecting the last name to my grandpa. After obtaining his phone number, he confirmed that he was her dad and soon was finally able to get my grandma's phone number and introduced herself to my grandma. Later on, it was revealed that Brandshaw actually kept my mom for six months, lying to my grandma that my mom had been adopted upon birth as planned. she told my grandma that mom had been adopted by a wealthy family with a dentist (reffering to herself and her husband). Soon Brandshaw ended up becoming pregnant herself and so she couldn't keep my mom. Brandshaw found out about my adopted grandparents looking to have a fourth child and so my mom ended up there. My mom and grandma later made plans to meet on the first day of spring in a town that my older sister is named after. the rest has been history. extremely sorry that this was very long, i did ask my mom for the long version of the story
Only like 8 minutes into the video, but why are the large majority of these about affairs? I knew people are stupid, but didn't realize that many people are stupid... like jeez if you don't want to be with your SO, just break up with them, don't cheat. Cheating is stupid.
9:34 Hehe, I know that at least from a family geneology book about my mom's side of the family is that they where one of the founding families of the Dutch Republic.
11:53 One of my paternal grandparents is also biracial. But in my case, it’s my grandpa. He married my grandmother, who’s white, and had two kids (my dad and aunt, in that order). Of the two, my aunt takes after my grandpa in terms of skin color.
nothing as grand as these, but my half sister contacted me on FB randomly one day because she found out her, her sister and 2 brothers had another brother, being me. Guess pops mentioned it at some point and it came as a shock. The weird part is, ive known about them my whole life, we were just always in a different state from them. They even played with my other half brother growing up before I was born who theyre not even related to lmao. I think all 3 moms involved actually knew each other to, either through school or the neighborhood idk. Kinda weird how seemingly no one had mentioned it for 16 years at the time lol.
Me again. Not a secret but funny. When the movie Braveheart was still wildly popular, my dad told everyone we were Scottish. (We're actually Irish, German and English🤣)
9:30, I lived in West Michigan all my life, and if you live in Ottawa County, almost everybody was Dutch. It was like I went to school with the Children of the Corn. I was like the only brown-haired Eastern European in my school, and I got bullied a lot and called The Jew- and I’m not even Jewish.
My ancestry is a mess and Im glad I don't let my familys history define me. The people liveing now are nothing like before. I'm distantly related to the British royal family I'm related to 4 us presidents I'm related to the kkk founders I'm related to a ton of native Americans Im related to Michael Jackson And a lot more
My mom took a dna test and is obsessed with any lossible gene she may have passed to me. I'd rather not know if I MIGHT have cancer and just live happily.
The comment about paying child support on the last story let me tell you as someone who grew up with a mother that spent 90% of her time partying my dad did pay child support and it only fueled her habits even more. My mother had a lot of physical and psychological trauma to cope with because she had me at 17 and was kicked out of her family home because of it, my father didn't believe I was his child and wanted nothing to do with me nor did his family, my mother married a very controlling and abusive man and it took her a long time to get away from him. Needless to say my half siblings and me had a rough upbringing but over the years especially after we all moved out and started doing our own thing it has become a lot better. We still have our troubles like any family but the verbal physical abuse is no longer, my brother and sister even have children of their own now and have great relationships with our mother but nothing to do with their father.
I'm not adopted or anything (I did a DNA test and my uncle on my dad's side matched with me as my uncle) but I have an EXTREMELY Italian last name, as you can tell, and my dad always told me that I was 25% Italian, but when I took the ancestry DNA test, it said that I'm 6-7% Italian and that I'm actually mostly German. I'm a little surprised by that tbh. I think the German came from my mom's side but idk tbh. It just kind of sucks that I have pretty much the most Italian name you can imagine and I'm barely Italian at all. I don't mind being German but I feel like a disgrace to Italy because my last name is more Italian than I am.
My mother was an Italian war-bride. Her parents are Italian, their parents etc. So I should be almost 50% Italian. Instead, 23 ane Me said that I was only about 17% Italian, with all this unaccounted for German and French background. I am extremely skeptical of the results, since I have very complete family trees from both sides of the family. I have tried to get one of my Italian cousins to do a DNA test, to see if they come up with this French-German thing too, or whether that is coming from my father's side of the family. If my Italian family was from the North of Italy, it would make a bit more sense, but they are from the Marche, and don't look at all German. No blond hair for instance. My Italian cousin didn't want to do it. I think she thinks of herself as 100% Italian, and doesn't want to know about the North African and Serbian influences that did show up in my DNA test. As an American with two Italian grandparents and one Norwegian grandparent, I am proud of my mixed heritage. On the reliability of these tests, I know someone in Santa Fe from an old Hispanic family. This family was here hundreds of years ago, consider themselves Hispanic, look Hispanic, have an Hispanic name. Yet the DNA test said that they were more Italian than Spanish. I think these tests are really interesting, but not at all accurate.
So my mother in law was contacted by a man saying she was his mom said on the birth certificate. This women can’t remember having him and is now trying to say it mite be her sisters son who used her name and social security number. It’s hard to believe cause she had many abusive relationships and didn’t take care of her older kids just the two youngest out of 5 kids will 6 if you count this new kid. Not only was she a drinker but she was a party doll. So we believe it’s hers and she don’t want to own up to being a party doll
My great grandmothers mom, dad and all her (7) siblings were tall and blond. My great grandmother on the other hand was small , tanned and with dark hair. My great great granmothers husband accepted her and didn´t waste a thought on why she looked so different (she had to be his after all, he was the only guy his wife had intercourse with). Well, NO (he never found out, died before this came up) but : At the time my great grandma was born (and months before;)) there was a groom working at their farm , he was from Sicily and looked very "italian" (think short, dark hair, eyes and tanned). Guess what? He is my great grandmothers father, my great great grandfather.
My grandfather's mother was in her fifties and a widow. Didn't even think she could have kids but got pregnant by a Canadian woodworker that did some work on the family home. In his family photos, he is the one gigantic person towering over everyone. All of his siblings looked exactly the same but he looked so drastically different. His mom died not too long after he was born and was raised by his sister who was also more than old enough to be his mother.
You can typically find a kit in the pharmacy section of Walmart. Our local store has them in the section with the blood pressure monitors and the daily pillboxes. There will be stuff inside for you to provide a sample from yourself, with instructions, and then you just mail it in and wait.
My aunt found out she had a sister that was put up for adoption (which would also be my aunt) so I had a aunt I didn't know about and found out about her from my aunt lol
My Family always said "Our Great Grandmother was a "Indian Princess" Which is kinda sketch already. I had a test and wouldn;t ya guess, No Native American dna, but plenty of Sub Sahara African!
@@HolyOrderofTheMoths thanks for sharing. I was wondering in case you said Louisiana or South Carolina because New Orleans Louisiana and Charleston South Carolina especially had communities where mixed black and white people could cross over into the local white population moreso than other places. Though it happened to a much smaller degree in other places.
wrong. some things are worth knowing so you don't end up screwing with and even possibly having children by someone you thought there was no way you were related to, but come to find out not only is related to you but also fairly closely related.
My older sister (different father) found out she has another brother when one day another brother/1st cousin dna match popped up with her that we didn't share. Turns out he's nearly a year younger than my sister which means her father cheated on our mother. Our mom doesn't care as its been 30 years since they've been together but my sisters new half brother clearly isn't handling it well. He was told his father was someone else. My sister hopes he comes around one day, she wants to have a relationship with him, but he has backed off as more details have come out confirming the truth.
Bought my daughter 23 and me and she sent it In and found out my dad raped a woman in 1988 and my half brother Joseph came out of it he’s ER DOCTOR AND WOW ❤
My grandpa had an out of marriage daughter he did not have any contact with. A few years ago my mom found her sister, she was not a very nice person.. I managed to find my 2 cousins on facebook and the younger one looks just like my little sister, and the older one looks exactly like my older brother. And they both share my eye color (gray dark blue)
My parents had a baby when they were in HS. Mid 1960’s. So for 52 years they kept it secret. My new- older brother found us. He lived within a few miles of us our whole life. Had friends in common and his daughter lived on the same street as my parents. Finding out about this was shocking but we are all glad we have met! It’s just so crazy to have a whole piece of new family. My parents went from 6 grand kids to 14 overnight.....
We're your parents alive at the time
"There is another" when through my head right before "To paraphrase Star Wars" came out on screen, lol.
Man the DNA lab must be a pretty drama filled place
Scientist 1: ooooo got another secret affair lovechild
Scientist 2: that’s nothing try switched at birth
Scientist 3: checkmate got a family tree that looks more like family triangle
@Caponezheater dna tests are a scam. Give me the whole results.
Well, considering 33% of everyone is a product of cheating, I would assume that drama isn't so special to them.
@Caponezheater Oh, so the mormons run Ancestry?
@Caponezheater br=ruih
When you’re running and analyzing these tests, you just get a readout that is a bunch of DNA base pair letters. You then feed that into a computer database that then puts all the pieces together. Those results are also extremely confidential, none of the lab techs see the info, only the computer does, and then prints out the data to be packaged and sent out.
Was told all my life that I had American Indian ancestory on my fathers side...his mother was very dark skinned. Had my DNA test done...I had no trace of American Indian ancestory, but it did show I was 3% African Caribbean from Barbados! I guess back in the day it was more socially acceptable to say you were Indian instead of black. Blew me away! 😯
Still might have been some truth to that, indigenous peoples have been known to intermarry with blacks. It could be interesting to see what a couple other tests would say.
you would be correct in your guess. i can't explain the reason for it but people absolutely lied about being native because it was less "shameful" than being black
The exact same thing happened to me ! But I'm choosing not to tell my family what I discovered. My parents and grandparents are really proud of and love their heritage because theve grown up believing it was true. I'm not going to ruin that for them. It will upset them a lot so I'll probably just keep it to myself
Well, that would mean that you had Barbados and African ancestry in ya! That'd be pretty cool!
Indeed, my grandmother(mother's side) often said that despite the fact that she was of mixed descent.
"we have a baby brother" broke me.
“My brother is legally my uncle”
*sweet home Alabama plays in the foreground*
@good night I’m still confused, what does the legally imply?
@@MissEasyPeasySleasy most likely her mother’s parents (the grandparents) adopted him as their own and raised him as her brother. Happened a lot back in the day.
That's doesn't mean he is that person father. He just has custody
I mean...you could put that song over this whole video
@@MissEasyPeasySleasy Sorry if it’s weird how late this reply is, but it probably means that his brother married his wife’s aunt. So the relation is through the wives and there aren’t any illegal familial relationships🥴
Makes me a lil sad to see so many of these secrets are of people cheating on their families..
Yeah, I read one where the dad committed suicide finding out he was raising his friends daughters in a 11 year affair when he was at home most of the time and wasted his life on someone who gave up their dreams for.
Yep about 30% of tests ends up with dad not being bio dad. Women be Wilding
I'm getting a headache trying to figure out some of the familial relationships in this thread
That's because the various narratives are convoluted with unnecessary words.
Lol! I was coming to the comments to say the same thing. Super hard to follow.
I can imagine some of these poster’s having those conspiracy theory boards with red string connected to photos and papers everywhere.
Does it matter, family keep your genitals away from each other.
because most of these are fake
I love how the majority of these end up with families happy to learn about their long lost relatives and absorbing them into the greater family group. Hella Wholesome!
except that last one though
My younger brother is actually my half-brother. The neighbor is his biological father. Both of our parents knew and never told us.
A grandfather always insisted he was half French/half Canadian Cherokee. When a sibling did the DNA, turned out grandpa was a mix of Scandanavian/Scottish/Irish-basically British. Also, since his (and his brother's last name) last name was French, I can only assume that my great grandparents were running and hiding from something.
DNA tests are banned in France so there are no samples in the database to compare against. Results never show French ancestry. The best it can do is show a Celtic mix and that means French people will appear as a mix of British, Irish and Scandinavian and maybe a little Italian. This is what happened to my results. Google it for clarity.
My cousins boyfriend realized he was adopted when looking at childhood photos with my cousin and realized there were none of him as a baby. He asked his mom about it and she said “oh, I thought you knew.” Apparently, his bio mom had been writing him letters every month since he was born and his adoptive mom had been throwing them out. It turns out she gave him up because she was a) young, b) single (he’s in his late thirties so this was a while ago) and c) HAD CANCER. She’s still alive and they moved to Montana to be with her :)
It’s really shitty his adopted mother threw away his bio mom’s letters.
@@droidmaker7932 And the even had the gall to tell him to his face, "Oh, I thought you knew..."
@@MetalSStar196 more likely other events eventually led him to move.
@@droidmaker7932 sounds like a possible forced adoption i saw a lot of stories on reddit of family members or in-laws harassing single mothers in similar circumstances to give their child to an infertile woman just because the father either left or died.
I have a really cool picture: My Aunt, my grandma, great grandma and great great grandma. Also a year old boy. I asked dad, "Is that cousin Eddie?"
"No, that's my sister's first son."
"Oh. Wait. WHAT??",
When she was 15 (This was the early 1950's) my dad's sister got pregnant by a 20 year old. They made them get married. They got divorced when the kid was 3 and the father got custody. He remarried and the stepmom raised the child. I don't know if she had any contact with her son after the divorce.
We found out my grandpa has 3 other children with 2 other women in 2 different states 🤷♀️ there are 2 daughters and a son. We couldn't find any pictures of the daughters but we found an OLD booking photo for the son and he is the spitting image of my grandpa.
He was the best grandpa to me and spoiled me so 💜 so to think that he's got all these children whom he's had no contact with and they probably hate his entirety, is so confusing to me. You mean THIS LOVING MAN had these affairs/kids and left them in the past like yesterdays trash?? I just cannot believe it
I can absolutely relate. The disbelief is overwhelming and then confusion and self doubt... it’s a strange feeling. My heart goes out to you as some one who went through the same thing only it was my bio father :(
Wishing you tons of love, happiness, healing, and health 💗🌻🥰 ☮️
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@@thisismycoolusername Wow your father? That's crazy. Unknown Siblings would be so intense. I'd be wondering if we are alike or look alike etc. That's even more crazy. Did you leave it be? Or pursue it?
Well I hope you are doing good and coping ok 💜💜 prayers and good vibes your way 💖♥️💖
Did your grandpa know he had these other cjildren?
@@matthewhicks1574 he knows about the daughters. I'm not sure if he knows about the son. It would be his only son.
But ya, He was around for the girls for a little bit but definitely didn't raise them like he did my mother.. I know they got older and began dating black men and my grandpa refused to speak to them because of that 😲😣it's been 35+? Years since then. He has dementia now and he has told me he doesn't understand how someone could hate someone based off their skin color. (Me:🤯🥴 "wut?") He is so anti racist now it is like a light switch... He gets angry at people for their racist remarks and the violence he sees on TV and going on in the world.
It just shows me racism was taught to him and now he doesn't care if you're black, white, yellow or brown, we are all the same and I'm glad he finally sees that, I realize it's still too late to mend the relationships with his daughters that his racism ruined, but I hope he did feel some kind of remorse 😣
Wow, surprising to find out your grandpa was a total POS in his young years. Time and consequences can really change for better, or worse.
my former landlord and friend is adopted, he did a find my family years later, hes in his 40s, he finally found both parents, his adopted family is dutch, his real dad is French Canadian Métis , his real mom was a teen when she had him, his dad was 20 and not at all reliable, so adopton , he met both them last year, sadly his mom after a while didnt want to continued with the relationship bc hes so conservative and Catholic shes very much hard Liberal and hates anything religious , his real dad and him get a long well, but for 4 months his real dad turned his back on him, in a drunken stuper , but has since gotten back with my friend and still talk and has met the cousins. his dad is a brick layer and laughs at everything he says , it was weird , but over all seemed like a nice guy
"My brother is legally my uncle" with no follow-up explanation is gonna haunt me for weeks
i had to look in the comments thinking everybody just glossed over that statement
When I did mine, I had to voice the fact that I knew there was a good chance the family that raised me wasn't actually related.
Apparently, when they loaded the test results, I wasn't. They literally drew straws on who would tell me. Someone refreshed the page in a panic and it said I WAS related. Upon hearing this, I had to know. Grandpa got the short straw. Everyone thought I'd take it best from him. The funny part is, I voiced it first, right after the test was sent off, and wasn't TOO butthurt over the possibility. A bug in the site at the exact moment they went to view my results said no common relatives that was resolved just SECONDS later. Our best guess is that the results literally went online right as they clicked them and not everything had finished loading into the database at the time.
When I did my dog a year and a half later, through EMBARK, they sent out the health results a day before everything else (so you actually look at them, because why not?). Well, that's how I discovered my Chow Chow has a Doberman in her lines: she has a copy of a DCM gene. Dilated Cardiomyopathy is very common in Dobermans. I knew this because that was my college study area. Didn't even need to google a list of breeds, it had to be Doberman, some ridiculous number have it (40% by some estimates). It was.... kind of shocking. A day later, results are ready, sure enough she is 5.5% Doberman. It was humorous. Also, for those curious, she is half chow... as are both of her parents. Pretty interesting that she looks very new-age chow (no wrinkles) and yet she's only half. And she literally doesn't carry the chow color genes at all (no sable, no recessive black; she has agouti and points, and she's a dominant black). She's a shelter dog so I wasn't expecting a purebred but she's pretty darn cool.
DNA results are fun, but scary.
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My family is complicated. We had an older sister who found us when I was 20, she was 26. At that time, DNA testing was just beginning to be used. We didn't know if she was our cousin or our sister. The DNA test confirmed she was our sister. Unfortunately, in 2015, she died from cancer. She had a younger half-sister who had been living with her and her husband, finishing out her high school years as home with our sister's birth mom was chaotic. When our sister died, our sister's husband decided to have a relationship and a child with the (much younger) half sister. At this point, none of us really want to do anymore testing.
I was adopted, and I found my biological mother and grandparents thanks to an Ancestry DNA kit. I also discovered that my biological father was fathered through an affair, and that my great grandmother was adopted. A year ago at this time, I didn't know who my biological family was. Now I'm filling out a family tree that shows who my ancestors in 15th century England were.
A court order DNA test in TN revealed that a nightclub owner had fathered close to a 100 children in two counties.
Several family members were convinced that my grandpa had a different dad than his brother, but nobody ever knew for sure. Turned out to be true, great grandma had an affair lol.
Bigfoot hunters keep trying to get my DNA for some reason
Probs just to see how you fit into the tree of evolution, and who you're closest related to.
If I could guarantee your safety I’d love to see where you come from lol.
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My late father always said he grew up in an orphanage so I took a DNA test to see if I could find out something about my dad's parents. It turned out my dad was really a teenage runaway. I was able to connect with cousins and learn a lot about my dad's parents. It seems like they were decent people. His extended family always wondered what happened to him.
wow. that's incredible. Did he assume another identity?
@@user-vm6oz6wt5g Yes, he changed his name and said he grew up in a completely different place than he really did. Before I took the DNA test I tried to contact the orphanage he said he grew up in but kept being told there was never an orphanage there. Now I know why that was such a dead end.
@@mjrmanson1 Oh wow. That's an incredible story. I can't even imagine how shocking that was. Was he alive or dead by the time you made contact?
@@user-vm6oz6wt5g My father had been dead many years. What is amazing is that the cousins I met still talked about the uncle they heard about all their lives that ran off. The extended family still talked about him even after everyone who actually knew him was dead.
@@mjrmanson1 Oh wow. That must have been so amazing for his family to finally know after all those years what happened to him! That really brought me to tears. It must have been so wonderful for them to make contact with you.
I just did a bunch of research myself and shared it with my grandmother. She was never really sure her father was her father but it turns out she was. I found all kinds of information for her and just put her in touch with her cousin. I am so thankful that this technology exists. Its truly amazing.
I never knew my father or his family so I took the ancestry test. When I got my results back I matched with a half sister and found out my neighbor growing up a very nice old Sicilian lady was my grandma. That explained why I'm the only one in my entire extended family with out blonde or red hair.
My mom left my biological father when she was pregnant with me. A few years ago, my sister took a test from 23 and me. We’re up to 3 half siblings so far. I don’t have any desire to meet them or my father. I was raised by my fantastic step dad, and am now a step dad myself. To me, family is more about the people who are there for you when you need them than the people who happen to share your dna.
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We found out my aunt isn’t my grandpa’s daughter. Grandparents admitted they were swingers in the hippy era and that’s probably how it happened. Was a fun Christmas.
I did a DNA test and found that a guy down the street from where I lived as a child is my half-sibling. I've never met him, but remember hearing his family's name a lot. Since all the people of our parents generation are deceased, we didn't pursue it. I suspect it was my (our?) father fooling around with his mother...both were married to other people at the time.
My friend was an adoptee and did a dna test. Found no one closer than 4-5th cousin...except he was matched to...a son. Turns out a casual girlfriend from when he was a teen had had a baby and gave him up.
1:24 - "This person, whose father was deceased at the time"
I love how it implies that the father's death was a momentary condition lol
I found out my dad was not my bio father. Found two new brothers and have dinner with them every week.
I was able to prove a family rumor by accident. I took a DNA test and matched as a cousin to a girl I had never heard of. We got to talking and she told me she was adopted by two doctors but had met her biological mother just not her biological father. She said bio mom's name and I knew instantly. It was the 17 year old girl my 40 year old uncle had gotten pregnant. He always denied it and she did too but she moved away and had the baby without his knowledge. Not to mention this girl was his step-daughter. Yeah. He got his step-daughter pregnant.
Also found out that my 3rd great grandfather was born out of wedlock and adopted by his grandparents. I was able to find his biological father by accident when I stumbled upon a birth record for him and once I added him to my tree I got tons of DNA matches linked to him.
I have two stories. My fiancé was always told he was Irish and Cherokee. Not a drop of Native American, barely Irish, mostly Scottish, but part Nigerian. Odd but okay. My mutt of a grandfather has dark skin and curly thick hair. People always ask what race he is. He thought he was just English, French, and Native American. He turned out to be French, Spanish, Swiss, English, Scottish, Native American, and Central American. And we also found out my grandma has some Middle East in her.
Not exactly a dark family secret, but one of my aunts who married into the family is adopted. She took a DNA test and found someone who could be her biological sister (plus same style of adoption story too with the way they were surrendered to an orphanage in a very specific way). The two got in contact, and it turns out they BOTH have 4 kids AND the kids are around the same ages as each other's kids AND they are two boys and two girls.....AND.. The kids LOOK like each other. It's kind of creepy ngl.
I was told we had Native American in our family (we're black). Turns out we're part European. And now it annoys me whenever they claim we're part Native American when we're not. 🙄
Found out that my great grandmother was adopted, so my sister and I went digging around for more details in the attic of the house that our grandmother grew up in (where our parents now live) and hit the mother load of family secrets- she wasn’t adopted legally she was basically trafficked out of Germany before ww1. She was able to speak 3 languages- German, English and Polish and used to paint pictures of her home village- which everyone thought were paintings of the Yorkshire countryside where she used to go for holidays until we found out the truth.
I’m always kinda freaked out by the idea of a DNA test bc according to my mom her grandfather’s entire family lead double lives, and the family that we know about is scattered across the US anyways, so I could be potentially related to pretty much anybody
basically my grandmas sister had a baby out of wedlock with a not great man and at the time this was a big nono, so she gave the baby up and felt horrible about it, my grandmas sister died in 2019 and never was able to find her daughter, about 5 months after her death the daughter is able to find us and contacts my grandma (who at this point was the basically the only living person who knew about all this as she never told anyone anything, only my grandma, and my grandmas parents) and my gran kinda breaks down and tells my mom everything, so then grans sisters kids get to learn all this and after are shocked but also very welcoming to new sister. My gran and her have been in regular contact but due to covid any trip for her to come meet us was delayed. Though finally yesterday she landed in her half siblings state and they all got to meet in person. I myself get to meet her and her daughter in like 3 days so looking forwards to that.
I found out that my father had 15 other kids, that was hard to bring up to his family....
19:21 Similar backstory I've heard for my father's side. My ancestor was the son of a lord (I forget by which loch) who got disowned when he got a maid pregnant. That side of the family also ended up in Glasgow.
Oh cool I have a Scottish lord for a Idk how many times great grandfather
Very cool! Did you meet any McIntyre Glaswegians, btw? We might be cousins.
No I’m related to a man named Adam Duncan who’s father or grandfather was a lord there’s a pub named after Adam in perthshire I believe
Same thing with my family... found a brother from an affair (only mom knew but couldn’t prove) and a sister that still remains a mystery. I think about her often as she took down all her info and eventually deleted her account when we tried to locate her. Her initials are JH. That’s all I know... but I wish more than anything she had wanted to meet me as badly as I wanted to meet her. I love my new baby brother and his family and really wish I had the same closure with my new sister (don’t even know if she is older or younger). JH if you ever see this, I hope you know I love you anyway!♥️
Wasn’t a DNA test, just known family history, but on my moms side, her moms two uncles (brothers) were involved in WW2. One ended up in a prison camp (Don’t know which) and the other ended up in the SS stationed AT said prison camp. After the war they never spoke to each other until they died.
Turns out my maternal grandfather…ahem…got around…and we just recently discovered that my mother has not one, but three sisters! (She grew up with her older sister and younger brother. My new aunt had been talking to my grandpa for months, and the paternity test came back positive. So now I also have a new aunt! We found out a few years back that she has another sister, but unlike my new aunt, this sister sadly wants nothing to do with the family)
I'm tempted to try this just to see who my half-sister is 😗 My biological father had a daughter a few years before my big sister was born.
My father is a result of a ffair his mother cheated on her husband who was overseas and my father was a result we never did a DNA test and unfortunately my father passed away but I'm going to do one soon as I come up with the funds I'm going to do one
Ours is a mess . We found out we had family here in the states ...they don't wanna talk to us because that would mean their great grandfather had a affair. Go back further , our European family members don't wanna talk to us because we " abandoned the home country " ( great grandparents left because the eldest sibling got everything ) and father back still we are related to Prussian Nobility .
This video got me thinking about my Nana’s husband. I spent most of my early life believing he was my bio grandfather. My mom tried to explain to me when I was young, but I didn’t get it till years later. It took me so long partly because child innocence but I think part of it was also that the stepfather had stepped into the role perfectly enough that both my mom and Aunt called him Dad by the time I was born.
If I do an ancestry DNA test, I don’t know the name of the flake. Even if he’s still alive by the time I want to take a test, I don’t want to meet him.
"My relative is the product of my grandfather having sex with his aunt." ... SWEET HOME, KEHHHHN-TUCKYYYYY!!!~~~
I found out in 09 that my father wasn’t my bio father. My mother had an affair and I’m the product of it. Everyone in the family knew. EVERY PERSON. Best kept secret on the planet. It explained his behavior towards me after I had my first child. My mom was angry at me cause it revealed she wasn’t the perfect person she acted like. My husband and I researched and thought we had found my bio dad in the Army’s registry of the fallen in Vietnam. Fast forward to 2018, at the tender age of 51,I took AncestryDNA test just for SnGs. My bio father was alive and well in Cali.
I always wondered why my dad would say to me, your mother really likes soldiers. I had no clue.
My mom is gone and so is the man I called dad for 42 years.
Update did you meet your bio father
Found out 40 minutes ago that my cousin is my half sister cause my dad is a piece of shit and cheated on my mom with her older sister 🙃 Teo of the people she trusted most betrayed her
Update
I half expected Mike Perry's I'm 2% African video to pop up on this one
Hahaha
Just got mine like an hour ago, my mom isn't british like her greatgrandmother claimed we are a solid 0.0 percent
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18:50 made me cry 😭
OMG...I kept getting shocked over and over. Good and bad. 🙄🤷♀️
What I found was basically my family tree is as expected but my various generations back grandpas have illegitimate children
21:31
Excuse me... WHAT???
The brother, who is actually a half-brother, is OP's uncle on paper. Perhaps. I'm gonna rewatch.
@@olymolly3637 I’ve noticed but... God I hope that... That just means grandpa put his name on the certificate and not an cheating with mother/father in law situation
I have a half brother from my mom's previous marriage and we've grown up treating each other like full siblings. It never made a difference to us. I have another brother who's younger and has both the same parents as me but the 3 of us are all equal to who to our mom and dad. My dad always treated my older brother as his son just as much as us. When he married my mom he had another kid and he never thought less of him. I also have 2 half sisters from my father but none of us have ever met them they have nothing to do with anyone in our family and live really far away so we don't know them. My mom would treat them like us to if they were around but they are adult and never come near us and live in other countries I think
A buddy of mine has two daughters and has told me whenever they used to fight he would tell them to stop fighting because they were sisters and that he knows this because the mom told him that they both have the same father, but never specified if it was him. He doesn't want to do a DNA test because they're already old enough that it really doesn't matter and rather not know.
He would laugh when he tells the story because his daughters get quiet and have a confused look. And say that it's messed up after laughing.
Me and my mom took DNA tests (dad wasn't interested and it was a two for one deal, plus I wanted to know about my background). I found out via my fathers side that I have some interesting European blood (there's the usual English, some Scottish, a bit of Irish...but there's German and Welsh...that was a surprise). And mother's side was even more interesting. A little background. My grandpa was Greek and my bio-grandma was...idk. The interesting part is my bio-grandma was a whore. She had three daughters (that our family knew of), mom being one of them. The eldest was "adopted" (a result of an affair...so it was known she wasn't my grandfathers daughter), but my mom and her other sister were thought to be related to grandpa. Nope. All three aren't related to grandpa. So after all this time of thinking that grandpa was her father, my mom found out via DNA testing that nope, he wasn't (though she still says he was and always will be regardless of blood). It was a bit surprising for her even knowing her mom was a whore.
Anyways back to the surprise for me. The surprise was I'm a little bit Norwegian (though my fair skin and blond hair are obvious...didn't get those lovely blue eyes though...green eyes). I think that was more from my bio-grandma then bio-grandpa whomever he was (we still don't know).
Another surprise is the eldest of the sisters found out she had a whole family of siblings out there (via her father and the shared mother my aunts and mother have). So yes technically my mom is semi related to those siblings, my one aunt is more closely related. So whoever was my mothers father (as well as the other aunt), they didn't have any other children...that we know of. Maybe one day we'll find out more as more people take tests.
This was one of the rare videos where I got a bit annoyed when it ended. I’d just gotten comfy and it was over!
When my parents were dating, dad told mom early on that it was entirely possible he had a couple of other kids out there, but he wasn't sure. I'm still waiting to see if DNA testing proves that to be true.
What is it with people and not wanting to tell their kids that they're adopted?
This is more common than you think. Even to this day people find out they were adopted at their parent's funeral or accidently.
Also: pre-med student (have taken genetics class) two brown eyed parents CAN make a blue eyed baby. Brown eyes is dominant (BB) and blue eyes is recessive (bb); however both parents are heterozygous (Bb); there is a 50% chance that both parents will pass down the b trait and make a bb (blue-eyed) baby.
Edit: I meant 25% not 50%
My daughter has hazel eyes like me and her partner has brown eyes, their son has very blue eyes like her father and brother in law, genetics is a trip.
Very good point! My dad was dark (Sioux heritage) and my mom is pretty pale. He had dark brown eyes and hers are light blue. My brother has brown eyes and mine look like my mom's. After learning about genetics in middle school, I assumed that Dad's side had a "honkey in the woodpile". After getting some genealiogical information from his half-sister, turns out it's true. We're descended from a white boy taken in and raised by the tribe.
ya know sometimes I wonder if I have a half sibling cause before my mom and dad met, my dad was in the army and married someone and idk if they did it or not then my dad ended up getting out of the army and they divorced then he met my mom and had my sister and i so like ya know it could be a possibility
God, now I need to ask my mom about how she found my grandma.
My mom was adopted and found my grandma sometime when she was in college in the 90s. My bio grandma and grandpa had her when they were both 18 and still in high school; plus it was the very early 70s so sex, let alone babies before marriage would have still been a scandolous topic
Mom soon found out that she has a full sister (auntie R) as well as a half brother on my grandpa's side (uncle T). uncle T has another half sibling who they share a mom with (aunt J), so though she and aunt J are not related to each other, my mom still considers her as a sister. My mom is still very close to her adopted brothers and sisters so I've been able to have a tightly nit yet very big family.
very quick update. my mother has given me the story!
when my mom was still in college, she found out the name of the lady was involved in coorinated her adoption through her professors helping her, the lady's name was Brandshaw and it turned out that her roomate (who I call my auntie N) knew Brandshaw, and so they drove to her location which was surprisingly close to her college.
Upon meeting Brandshaw, it was discovered that my grandma had sent letters adressed to my mom all throughout her childhood (one mentioning that she had a sister, my aunt R, complete with a photo) and this lady kept them!
She didn't want to send them to my mom because she "wanted to coordinated the reunion" (reasons as to why Brandshaw would do this my mom has no clue on since Brandshaw never even talked to my mom and she had to find her all on her own). even when my mom did have access to photos of the letters, stuff was heavily censored.
However, certain identifying features went past the censorship, like the name of my grandma and aunt R, My mom and auntie N did some cyberstalking (since my aunt R has a very one of the kind name) and found the last name of my aunt R as well as connecting the last name to my grandpa. After obtaining his phone number, he confirmed that he was her dad and soon was finally able to get my grandma's phone number and introduced herself to my grandma.
Later on, it was revealed that Brandshaw actually kept my mom for six months, lying to my grandma that my mom had been adopted upon birth as planned. she told my grandma that mom had been adopted by a wealthy family with a dentist (reffering to herself and her husband). Soon Brandshaw ended up becoming pregnant herself and so she couldn't keep my mom. Brandshaw found out about my adopted grandparents looking to have a fourth child and so my mom ended up there.
My mom and grandma later made plans to meet on the first day of spring in a town that my older sister is named after. the rest has been history. extremely sorry that this was very long, i did ask my mom for the long version of the story
Only like 8 minutes into the video, but why are the large majority of these about affairs? I knew people are stupid, but didn't realize that many people are stupid... like jeez if you don't want to be with your SO, just break up with them, don't cheat. Cheating is stupid.
Ikr?
9:34 Hehe, I know that at least from a family geneology book about my mom's side of the family is that they where one of the founding families of the Dutch Republic.
11:53
One of my paternal grandparents is also biracial.
But in my case, it’s my grandpa.
He married my grandmother, who’s white, and had two kids (my dad and aunt, in that order).
Of the two, my aunt takes after my grandpa in terms of skin color.
i punched myself and found out i was related to a burger
nothing as grand as these, but my half sister contacted me on FB randomly one day because she found out her, her sister and 2 brothers had another brother, being me. Guess pops mentioned it at some point and it came as a shock.
The weird part is, ive known about them my whole life, we were just always in a different state from them. They even played with my other half brother growing up before I was born who theyre not even related to lmao. I think all 3 moms involved actually knew each other to, either through school or the neighborhood idk.
Kinda weird how seemingly no one had mentioned it for 16 years at the time lol.
Men: "I want a traditional wife"
Peoples "traditional" ancestors/grandparents: *over half this video*
😂
Me again. Not a secret but funny. When the movie Braveheart was still wildly popular, my dad told everyone we were Scottish. (We're actually Irish, German and English🤣)
9:30, I lived in West Michigan all my life, and if you live in Ottawa County, almost everybody was Dutch. It was like I went to school with the Children of the Corn. I was like the only brown-haired Eastern European in my school, and I got bullied a lot and called The Jew- and I’m not even Jewish.
My ancestry is a mess and Im glad I don't let my familys history define me. The people liveing now are nothing like before.
I'm distantly related to the British royal family
I'm related to 4 us presidents
I'm related to the kkk founders
I'm related to a ton of native Americans
Im related to Michael Jackson
And a lot more
My mom took a dna test and is obsessed with any lossible gene she may have passed to me. I'd rather not know if I MIGHT have cancer and just live happily.
"Their father was deceased at the time." He's back on his feet now tho
The comment about paying child support on the last story let me tell you as someone who grew up with a mother that spent 90% of her time partying my dad did pay child support and it only fueled her habits even more. My mother had a lot of physical and psychological trauma to cope with because she had me at 17 and was kicked out of her family home because of it, my father didn't believe I was his child and wanted nothing to do with me nor did his family, my mother married a very controlling and abusive man and it took her a long time to get away from him. Needless to say my half siblings and me had a rough upbringing but over the years especially after we all moved out and started doing our own thing it has become a lot better. We still have our troubles like any family but the verbal physical abuse is no longer, my brother and sister even have children of their own now and have great relationships with our mother but nothing to do with their father.
don't understand why these people are going "only my half sibling :/" is it really that earth shattering.
I don't understand why people hide the fact from their kids that they are adopted
I’m related to the person who assassinated President Garfield...
Dammit, why cant people be faithful??
I'm not adopted or anything (I did a DNA test and my uncle on my dad's side matched with me as my uncle) but I have an EXTREMELY Italian last name, as you can tell, and my dad always told me that I was 25% Italian, but when I took the ancestry DNA test, it said that I'm 6-7% Italian and that I'm actually mostly German. I'm a little surprised by that tbh. I think the German came from my mom's side but idk tbh. It just kind of sucks that I have pretty much the most Italian name you can imagine and I'm barely Italian at all. I don't mind being German but I feel like a disgrace to Italy because my last name is more Italian than I am.
My mother was an Italian war-bride. Her parents are Italian, their parents etc. So I should be almost 50% Italian. Instead, 23 ane Me said that I was only about 17% Italian, with all this unaccounted for German and French background. I am extremely skeptical of the results, since I have very complete family trees from both sides of the family. I have tried to get one of my Italian cousins to do a DNA test, to see if they come up with this French-German thing too, or whether that is coming from my father's side of the family. If my Italian family was from the North of Italy, it would make a bit more sense, but they are from the Marche, and don't look at all German. No blond hair for instance. My Italian cousin didn't want to do it. I think she thinks of herself as 100% Italian, and doesn't want to know about the North African and Serbian influences that did show up in my DNA test. As an American with two Italian grandparents and one Norwegian grandparent, I am proud of my mixed heritage. On the reliability of these tests, I know someone in Santa Fe from an old Hispanic family. This family was here hundreds of years ago, consider themselves Hispanic, look Hispanic, have an Hispanic name. Yet the DNA test said that they were more Italian than Spanish. I think these tests are really interesting, but not at all accurate.
So my mother in law was contacted by a man saying she was his mom said on the birth certificate. This women can’t remember having him and is now trying to say it mite be her sisters son who used her name and social security number. It’s hard to believe cause she had many abusive relationships and didn’t take care of her older kids just the two youngest out of 5 kids will 6 if you count this new kid. Not only was she a drinker but she was a party doll. So we believe it’s hers and she don’t want to own up to being a party doll
My great grandmothers mom, dad and all her (7) siblings were tall and blond. My great grandmother on the other hand was small , tanned and with dark hair. My great great granmothers husband accepted her and didn´t waste a thought on why she looked so different
(she had to be his after all, he was the only guy his wife had intercourse with).
Well, NO (he never found out, died before this came up) but : At the time my great grandma was born (and months before;)) there was a groom working at their farm , he was from Sicily and looked very "italian" (think short, dark hair, eyes and tanned).
Guess what? He is my great grandmothers father, my great great grandfather.
My grandfather's mother was in her fifties and a widow. Didn't even think she could have kids but got pregnant by a Canadian woodworker that did some work on the family home. In his family photos, he is the one gigantic person towering over everyone. All of his siblings looked exactly the same but he looked so drastically different. His mom died not too long after he was born and was raised by his sister who was also more than old enough to be his mother.
the ones who lose the most are often the kids in these cases. feels horrible.
How or where do you do those tests I’m really curious about mine
You can typically find a kit in the pharmacy section of Walmart. Our local store has them in the section with the blood pressure monitors and the daily pillboxes. There will be stuff inside for you to provide a sample from yourself, with instructions, and then you just mail it in and wait.
My dad used to joke about my siblings and I being the mailman's kids. He was right.
My dad works as a mailman.
My aunt found out she had a sister that was put up for adoption (which would also be my aunt) so I had a aunt I didn't know about and found out about her from my aunt lol
Update
Okay using so many cousin/mother/daughter things... my brain can’t follow half of these.
Warriorgrandma is from Port Richmond I gather. Philly is chock full of weird family histories, some going all the way back to William Penn era..
My Family always said "Our Great Grandmother was a "Indian Princess" Which is kinda sketch already. I had a test and wouldn;t ya guess, No Native American dna, but plenty of Sub Sahara African!
cool. what state is your family from?
@@apgeneticgenealogylover6601 Alabama mostly
@@HolyOrderofTheMoths thanks for sharing. I was wondering in case you said Louisiana or South Carolina because New Orleans Louisiana and Charleston South Carolina especially had communities where mixed black and white people could cross over into the local white population moreso than other places. Though it happened to a much smaller degree in other places.
Some things are better left unchecked
wrong. some things are worth knowing so you don't end up screwing with and even possibly having children by someone you thought there was no way you were related to, but come to find out not only is related to you but also fairly closely related.
My older sister (different father) found out she has another brother when one day another brother/1st cousin dna match popped up with her that we didn't share. Turns out he's nearly a year younger than my sister which means her father cheated on our mother. Our mom doesn't care as its been 30 years since they've been together but my sisters new half brother clearly isn't handling it well. He was told his father was someone else. My sister hopes he comes around one day, she wants to have a relationship with him, but he has backed off as more details have come out confirming the truth.
Bought my daughter 23 and me and she sent it In and found out my dad raped a woman in 1988 and my half brother Joseph came out of it he’s ER DOCTOR AND WOW ❤
Mama's baby, daddy's maybe.
My brain cannot process this information
I took an ancestry DNA test and had the craziest secret come out. It says i'm 100% that bitch!
1:05 this reminds me of that one episode of the Simpsons
My grandpa had an out of marriage daughter he did not have any contact with. A few years ago my mom found her sister, she was not a very nice person..
I managed to find my 2 cousins on facebook and the younger one looks just like my little sister, and the older one looks exactly like my older brother. And they both share my eye color (gray dark blue)