Yes, He and his brother were adopted and his brother wanted to find his birth parents so both did the test.
Curious how you are able to find out other siblings like that through a DNA test? Had they also done one or something?
Very cool! That could get a bit awkward however.
Very cool! That could get a bit awkward however.
It can get way, way more awkward than that. There are a LOT of people finding out that daddy…ummm…isn’t. But even more awkward than that, they also often find out who their daddy really is.
A friend of my wife’s had one of these little needle-drags-off-the-record moments when she decided to fill in the family tree and got some results she wasn’t expecting. The father who raised her was nowhere to be seen on the DNA family tree. Needless to say, neither of her parents had ever mentioned this.
It got worse. Instead, the father listed was a man she’d never heard of. Until she Googled the name and found out this man was a doctor who ran one of the only fertility clinics in this rather small western state where Nichole (not her real name) grew up. And there was LOTS of discussion about him on the internet.
As it turns out, Dr. Strangelove had trouble attracting donors so he did a lot of the donating himself. If you know what I mean. Nobody was the wiser until DNA analysis started putting together the puzzle, but suddenly Nichole found out she has about 60 half-siblings… And counting.
This sort of thing is becoming very, very common. My neighbor and good friend got a surprise call last summer. From the half-sister, he never knew he had. It was the usual tale, his mom got pregnant as a teenager in the 1960s and gave the baby up for adoption. Nobody in the family knew a thing about it and then…
The past is a foreign country. If you visit it at all, you have to be ready for whatever you find there. The place you think you know can very quickly turn out to be a place you had never really known at all.
OMG Grouse that is crazy! I have a buddy who was married to a total tramp who was sleeping with like 4 different guys. She got pregnant with “their” second kid and I told him to get the DNA from the baby to have it tested to see if he was the father. I did the calculation and based on her due date, conception would have been when he was in Canada for National Guard training. He said he didnt want to find out. I cannot say I blame him.
Yes – ancestry goes by what is entered on birth certificates and census information. Census data is held private for 70 years or so and then made public. That is why the 1950 data is being uploaded by ancestry dot com.
It is largely the Mormans that have taken all those census reports (written by hand in cursive) and build the data base people use today … vs going to courthouses, etc on your own (the old way). Digitizing cursive writing can be as much “art” as science and errors occur in spelling, etc…
Maternal lines are pretty firm as long as there are no adoptions. But I know there are situations where families adopted kids from their siblings and called them their own.
Paternal lines are only as good as the fidelity of the woman.
DNA testing can indeed discover who the real parents are or are not … per Murrey Povich … you are the father.
The DNA tests all go into a database that can be searched by authorities. The database has been used to match crime scene DNA to people (via relatives including rather distant cousins). I would assume warrants are required, but have no idea.
If you have a creepy past … well hope your blood relatives do not get tested.
If you have a creepy relative. Go get tested and if there is a database match … they may just end up in jail.
Between the DNA database and other databases that show where you live and have lived, worked, vehicles owned … they can on occasion solve some pretty good mysteries. Can’t argue with putting these creeps in jail to stop the perpetual victimization … but it comes at a pretty steep privacy cost.
Sorry – duplicate too above.
Some of ya’ll will deposit your DNA into almost anything after 2am, yet be hesitant to mail it somewhere.
My family tree has been loosely traced back to 1581 with Stephen Hopkins, a Mayflower passenger. Interesting? Yes. believable? Not sure.
Stephan Hopkins huh. Well we may be cousins then.
Well my results were interesting.
Western European 20%
Neanderthal 5%
Labrador Retriever 35%
Unknown 40%
This might actually explain a lot 
S.R.
BK isn’t in mine. Good e’nuf!
40% unknown? Ha that’s kind of hilarious.
BK isn’t in mine. Good e’nuf!
WKW, if you’re waiting for your come back, 
ask your mother.
Edit: Just so no one gets the wrong idea, WKW and I have been friends for..well before he was a golfer.
… and back on track.
49% Germanic Europe
29% Sweden & Denmark
with a bit of Norway, Eastern Europe, Russia, and England tossed in.
49% To much time on my hands
29% Searching IDO web site
with some off the wall comments about spam
… and back on track.
49% Germanic Europe
29% Sweden & Denmark
with a bit of Norway, Eastern Europe, Russia, and England tossed in.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>wkw wrote:</div>
BK isn’t in mine. Good e’nuf!WKW, if you’re waiting for your come back,
ask your mother.
Edit: Just so no one gets the wrong idea, WKW and I have been friends for..well before he was a golfer.
Just so I understand this: You fish and he golfs and neither of you is a liar?:???:
I’ve always known that my recent ancestors were Norwegian and German but found out that my ancestry was more diverse that I ever suspected after I had DNA testing done.
My ancestoral DNA can be dated back to 850 A.D and occupying parts of the world as we now know it were:
32.5% Northern European
20.8% from the British Isles
19.7% NW European
8.8% Toscani Italian
8.7% Iberian
2.5% Gujarti Indian
1.5% Punjabi
1.0% Sri Lankin Tamil
0.8% Bengali
1.1% Peruvian
0.8% Columbian
0.6% Mexican
0.5% Puerto Rican
0.3% Japanese
0.3% Vietnamese
0.2% Chinese
The results are calculated to be 80% to 99% accurate. I studies genetics quite a bit in college and the results are pretty hard to dispute.
Like I stated earlier some of my genetic information shows that my mother’s genetic information likely originated in Kenya while my father’s genetic information likely originated in Cameroon.
I find it all really interesting.
I’ve always known that my recent ancestors were Norwegian and German but found out that my ancestry was more diverse that I ever suspected after I had DNA testing done.
My ancestoral DNA can be dated back to 850 A.D and occupying parts of the world as we now know it were:32.5% Northern European
20.8% from the British Isles
19.7% NW European
8.8% Toscani Italian
8.7% Iberian
2.5% Gujarti Indian
1.5% Punjabi
1.0% Sri Lankin Tamil
0.8% Bengali
1.1% Peruvian
0.8% Columbian
0.6% Mexican
0.5% Puerto Rican
0.3% Japanese
0.3% Vietnamese
0.2% ChineseThe results are calculated to be 80% to 99% accurate. I studies genetics quite a bit in college and the results are pretty hard to dispute.
Like I stated earlier some of my genetic information shows that my mother’s genetic information likely originated in Kenya while my father’s genetic information likely originated in Cameroon.
I find it all really interesting.
Your ancestors may have actually invented the word “slut”? 
Your ancestors may have actually invented the word “slut”?
Underrated comment.
Your ancestors may have actually invented the word “slut”?
Just being funny. No offense intended whatsoever.
I’d be more curious to see how many family tree’s don’t have any branches… 
I’d be more curious to see how many family tree’s don’t have any branches…
Ha, in Stearns County could be a real eye opener.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
I’d be more curious to see how many family tree’s don’t have any branches…Ha, in Stearns County could be a real eye opener.
yea you got that right!!!!!!!!!! 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
Very cool! That could get a bit awkward however.It can get way, way more awkward than that. There are a LOT of people finding out that daddy…ummm…isn’t. But even more awkward than that, they also often find out who their daddy really is.
A friend of my wife’s had one of these little needle-drags-off-the-record moments when she decided to fill in the family tree and got some results she wasn’t expecting. The father who raised her was nowhere to be seen on the DNA family tree. Needless to say, neither of her parents had ever mentioned this.
It got worse. Instead, the father listed was a man she’d never heard of. Until she Googled the name and found out this man was a doctor who ran one of the only fertility clinics in this rather small western state where Nichole (not her real name) grew up. And there was LOTS of discussion about him on the internet.As it turns out, Dr. Strangelove had trouble attracting donors so he did a lot of the donating himself. If you know what I mean. Nobody was the wiser until DNA analysis started putting together the puzzle, but suddenly Nichole found out she has about 60 half-siblings… And counting.
This sort of thing is becoming very, very common. My neighbor and good friend got a surprise call last summer. From the half-sister, he never knew he had. It was the usual tale, his mom got pregnant as a teenager in the 1960s and gave the baby up for adoption. Nobody in the family knew a thing about it and then…
The past is a foreign country. If you visit it at all, you have to be ready for whatever you find there. The place you think you know can very quickly turn out to be a place you had never really known at all.
There is a documentary on Netflix called “Our Father” about a similar situation in Indiana with Dr. Donald Cline. Total creep.
yea you got that right!!!!!!!!!!
I was at a bar the other day and there was an older gentleman and I asked if his last name was a VERY common last name in this area. He snapped his head and asked me “what about it” in a snarky way. LOL The reason I asked is because a former coworker also had that last name and I was wondering if they were related. He thought I was reaching for something else LOL
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
yea you got that right!!!!!!!!!!I was at a bar the other day and there was an older gentleman and I asked if his last name was a VERY common last name in this area. He snapped his head and asked me “what about it” in a snarky way. LOL The reason I asked is because a former coworker also had that last name and I was wondering if they were related. He thought I was reaching for something else LOL
i used to work with a fair amount of guys from the holdingford area…..they didnt like it when we asked them if they married there cousin!!!!!!
My older sister had her DNA done and came back very accurate.
Parent 1, our dad, 48% Finland and 2% England and Northwestern Europe. My dad’s parents emigrated from Finland.
Parent 2, our mom, 48% German, 2% Baltics and 2% Northern Italy. My grandma always said there was some Italian.
i used to work with a fair amount of guys from the holdingford area…..they didnt like it when we asked them if they married there cousin!!!!!!
Ha! Many moons ago when internet forums were just getting started this coworker was on a board leading up to the Vikings Falcons NFC Championship game. He was trash talking with Falcons fans and said “we all know about the Southern in-breeding going on there” and one of them replied “Stearns County says “hold my beer””. He had a good laugh at that.
I now reside in Stearns County but I am quite clear to point out I wasnt BORN here.
57 % Eastern European
27 % Western European
12 % Scandinavian
3 % Balkan ….
Guess my ancestors made the rounds all over Europe before landing at Ellis Island in 1905
Paulski
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ask your mother.
