What are your DNA test horror stories?
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“Our families have the exact same medical history, we have the exact same bone structure. We can’t possibly be related!”
That poor girl ghosted him hard…..then cried for 5 hours in a bleach bath probably.
I think she discovered that and understandably freaked out.
@@equarg they would be second cousins, not really a big deal, except for the higher risk of bipolar disorder for their hypotetical children
Remember the Farkel Family skit???
@@heypatk No actually.
@@Wolfie54545 look up “laugh in” farkel family
23andme DOES tell you if you have neanderthal 'variants' . so that was NOT a joke .
Dad gave his mother a 23 kit when he got one and she found out she's in the 99th percentile for ammount of Neanderthal dna, so that was pretty cool!
@@kayladunaway7101 The seed is strong.
@@waynepolo6193 Lol, it also confirmed that the "Cheerokee Princess" her fam always claimed decent from was most likely of East African decent (she's from the south, everyone's family "Cheerokee Princess" was more than likely of African decent - 1 drop laws run deep and its honestly so sad)
In general, these tests are extremely accurate. DNA markers don’t lie and are highly reproducible. As stated, the only time they fuck up is when a sample gets accidentally swapped, or contaminated.
Depending on the service, they may also do less involved, or less specific tests, so that may also be a factor. 23andme is regarded as one of the more accurate and more extensive tests available.
The human could screw up, or it could be a case of chimera
@tiexiaowang7939 yeah, the only way these wouldn't be accurate is human error, or they're looking at things that are a bit too general to make definitive conclusions about
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yeah i mean isn't dna essentially just a big ass text file
CBC had a set of identical twins do a 23 and me test, and their results were completely different.
Just because the science is good in theory doesn't mean it's being applied correctly
The Neanderthal one was not a joke 😅
I have 2% Neanderthal dna 🤷🏼♀️
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens did mate before they became extinct.
23andMe actually offers a Neanderthal Ancestry Report!
@@RosemaryAmey That’s how I know ^^
Yeah, I have an uncle who got confirmation from Ancestry that he has Neanderthal genes. It’s probably part of my mom’s “unspecified” as well.
The more you know!
Skill issue
I (passively) found out my uncle is not my uncle. Apparently, my grandfather wanted a son so badly that when a woman my granddad had an affair with gave birth to a boy, pawpaw took full responsibility for him, and my granny adopted him. I found _that_ out in the backseat of the car in 2010 going home for his funeral. I was the last to know and didn’t react well solely because I was overwhelmed.
In 2021, I took a 23andMe and sent a second one to my granny, not thinking when some family members didn’t populate because the tests can be pricey and some of us are conspiracy theorists convinced that our DNA will be sold and we’d be cloned (these same relatives were active duty military and blocked me when I said those of us who served would have been cloned by now). My uncle then called me and asked about my results, and I realized he hadn’t populated as a relative. I, once again, got overwhelmed and responded by hanging up on my uncle, then calling my mom.
Turns out that I, once again, was the last to know. Nobody tells me shit, and I called my mom wailing over some shit everyone else knew. Mom had me call my uncle back, who calmly told me that he knew, processed the information, and was likely a second/third cousin to me biologically. Then he told me I’m still his baby niece, that the knowledge is just part of my family tapestry, and it doesn’t change how much he loves his parents, his siblings, or me.
If I were you I'd be hounding everyone to tell me anything else they are declining to tell me.
Dude. After my mom did hers she became obsessed with genealogy, so much so that she started a full blown crusade to find not only ours, but my dad's, his friend's, my brother in law's, EVERYONES she possibly can. I swear this woman is nuts and will fucking find your lineage and track it all the way back to the beginning of time. Dates, times, documents, pictures, my mother will find absolutely every single shred of someone's information and life story. She started this SEVEN YEARS AGO and is still going. I'm fucking twenty now.
I got tipsy and bought the full access for 1 year and went back to the 1500s on my mom’s side. Then helped 28 friends make family trees by sharing access. We were able to track down 2 dads that never knew they had kids!
@@ZomBeeQueeenwhich one is it? How do they get info on relatives? Does it only work with people that also took the test or do they have some bizarre sort of way of getting that info?
WOW, that’s seriously impressive! Your mom sounds like she’s on an epic quest for genealogical knowledge. To dedicate seven years to tracing every lineage and unearthing every detail is beyond impressive-it’s almost like she’s on a mission to rewrite history! I can’t help but wonder, what’s the most astonishing or unexpected thing she’s discovered along the way? She must have some incredible stories to share from this epic adventure!
Can I get your mom’s services? I don’t know anything about my family history from either side past my grandparents. I’d be surprised what she’d find with limited info
She sounds like she'd be an amazing private eye. That's what I need to know about my and my son's genealogy. We know basically nothing and as much as I was lied to and wasn't the favorite child, I'm an only child, lol, I really would want to know. Kinda afraid to, but still curious.
younger brother and I went to college together. we were admittedly both pretty wild and had a lot of partners. We always joked that it was a matter of when not if one of us would be a dad soon. One day my brother tells me this girl he is pregnant. Wasn’t necessarily a surprise that it happened, but it was a surprise who it happened with. We were around each other all the time and I’d never met her. Fast forward and the baby is born. My brother names the baby after him. I thought the little guy looked like him too. My brother had his doubts though. He ordered a DNA test and tells me to come over to open the email. it said there was a 0% chance he was the father. It was a shock to us all and he was so excited to be a dad. I still remember the deafening silence while staring at the computer screen. I haven’t seen that girl or the baby since. Now he’s got a beautiful family of his own and I’m super happy for him.
My grandparents got married when my grandma was 6 months pregnant. Normally you'd think it's because they'd done the deed, right? Well in this case, nope.
Anytime anyone tried asking Grandma about it, she refused to saying anything. As in, she literally said "I don't want to talk about it." Before grandpa passed away he would always say, "It doesn't matter because he's my son." Cousins all know, my uncle's siblings all know, but no one knows the true story. Can't ask my grandma's siblings because they're all either passed on or estranged from the family. We tried contacting that uncle anyway, and he said that it wasn't his story to tell.
So my cousin starts digging. She and my brother do DNA tests to start digging. My brother just because he could, since he paid for my cousin to do the test to find answers. Well, we found the story thanks to that test.
Turned out my grandma had married a different guy initially, and shortly after their marriage when she had just found out she was pregnant the guy passed away in a motorcycle accident. A few months later grandma met grandpa, they fell in love, were married, and my grandpa raised my uncle as if he were his own.
The good news is that it shows just how good of a person my grandpa was. The only sad thing is that had they told the truth from the start it probably would have saved the cousin's from a whole lot of confusing lore creating, because before my cousin did the DNA test the running theory was that grandma had been raped by some stranger. We were all relieved to find out the truth.
I don’t get lying about stuff like that. What is bad about “my first husband died”??? Of course you would jump to the worst conclusions!
I know my kid isn't mine. She was almost 3 when her mother and I started dating. But every now and then she does something that is so much like me and my family that I've asked her mum if it's possible there was a drunken night that we don't remember 😂
haha thats so funny! i'm adopted, but i also do stuff/have traits that are very similar to my parents. my younger brother, who is adopted too, also has a freckle in the same place as a freckle i have!
I am dying laughing. I'm adopted as are 9 or 10 of my non-bio siblings, plus there's 27 foster kids and our parents' 2 bio kids that all grew up together. Some of the unrelated kids who decide they're twins, and the kids who won't even eat at the same table but are Bio siblings, make me laugh so hard. There's also the petite Latina child who bossed the bigger black kids into a human pyramid so she could reach cookies and turn on a movie for everyone.
@@h2oteen back up a second, 27?? All at once, or like, do they rotate in and out? HOW BIG IS YOUR HOUSE!!!???
I have so many questions!
@kjs8719 6 bedrooms.
1) rotation, 2) we were allowed to stay past 18 so we no longer counted as a child and another kid would come in, 3) illegally crowded because no one cared! Texas foster/adopt homes are nuts. It was chaos incarnate. Bad stuff happened due to the lack of supervision and wide ranges in age.
@@h2oteen 😬
Sometimes genetics are weird.
I knew a boss whose family had a genetic caused chaotic event.
His family was “white”, his sister thought she married a white man (no one is racist here), and she gave birth to a heathy, but very black baby girl.
Chaos in the maternity ward ensured.
This was early DNA testing.
A nurse got DNA samples because she believed the wife did not cheat.
They were a hair from divorce when the results came in.
Not only was the husband the father, but the “black gene” came from his side of the family. His Great (?great) Grandfather to be specific.
His family:😳
That would be around the time of The Orphan Train operations of the late 19th century to very early 20th century.
Look it up.
Anyways. Divorce was canceled.
Husband apologized profusely, they love their little girl, they just have to constantly have to explain that yes….they are the biological parents.
Oh. Chimera cases are interesting to. Like a woman has an absorbed sisters uterus or a man actually has an absorbed siblings sperm.
That has caused some confusion apparently.
How black are we talking? Tan skin and curly hair? Cause I doubt the baby came out my skin color
@@angelacooper8973I've seen half black half white people who have pasty white skin, i can believe that a very black baby can come out of a very white looking couple.
Story 63: non no no no! it's perfectly real. some of us have up to 5% neanderthal in us
In regards to telling kids if they're adopted its also important in regards to genetic conditions
My mom is a geneology buff, we did dna testing and she knows our entire family history back to preslavery times for all of our cultures (we are white, black and native american). There were no surprises about people lying about parentage or anyones father not being their actual father, so our stories and family photo albums that were passed down were all proven 100% correct. If anything, we found out we are MUCH more native american than previously thought through tracing the family tree… but the dna test said we had 0 native DNA. Its a weird juxtaposition where we literally have records, photographs, census papers, birth and marriage certificates where the majority of our heritage is native american, and then the test says we are not native. These people were confirmed to be our direct descendants but we mostly come from a tribe that isnt federally recognized so our best guess is the DNA company has not registered our tribes dna as native at all? We are currently in the process of legally joining a tribe that takes in smaller federally unrecognized tribe descendants if you can prove your dna through family tree. We qualify 🤷🏽♀️
Native American tribes adopted people like mad, gave them a home and culture.
@@mamasplayinhookie3131 youre right and we even have photographs to show that, but i have full blood native american people from both my mother and father with photographs to boot, copper skin, long dark braided hair, etc. and still cane up with 0 native in the dna test. My moms side adopted in what we thought was a white boy (blonde/blue eyes) and we found out through tracing family history he was actually half white and half native, but white passing. So even that was like “wow, were more native than we thought!”
@@sapphirelynn821 My daughter had her test done through ancestry. Showed exactly where her DNA came from. Have you tried them?
Those DNA companies usually have insufficient data for people who aren't European. They heavily, heavily favor White people.
The entire system relies on sample DNA from participants, as far as I understand. They offer so many genetic profiles for people with European descent (I have DNA that can be traced to a certain district of London), but are missing entire tribes and, in some cases, entire countries. Just another example of White privilege.
DNA doesn’t lie. You made a mistake somewhere along the line. Your ancestors may have been adopted into the tribe but that doesn’t change your biological make up.
I found out I had a half sibling. My father got a girl pregnant in high school, but it was the 50s, and he wasn't sure it was actually his. One day half bro just shows up at my parents' house. One look at him and I knew he was my father's.
What was your fathers reaction?
@itsharperoffi my dad had seen my half-brother once as a 2 year old. He wasn't sure at that time. But he showed up at the house my brother was in his sixties, and he looked just like my dad. My dad owns the fact that he was a jerk about it when he was young. Now he's working on their relationship.
I like both channel narrators but the soft voice Canadian has a special place in my heart. Still love these
Around the 10:00 mark: Found out your girlfriend was really your cousin, and you wouldn't know how to tell her? Honey, she already found out. Why else would she suddenly block and ghost you. She probably didn't want to have that conversation with YOU either.
I think we've all heard the stories about the man who worked on railroads hauling coal out of West Virginia 50+ years ago. He had a wife and children in West Virginia, and another wife and children at the other end of the railroad line (OH? IN? IL? PA?). Each family knew his job took him away for days at a time, but never suspected a thing.
When I got my DNA tested I learned nothing new. Both my maternal grandparents were very Irish (I’m 40%)
My paternal grandfather’s family is from Ukraine (25%~ Eastern European)
My paternal grandmother is thought to be 100% Italian (25%~ Italy)
My family is kinda old. The farthest back you can go on my father’s side is 1592 and on my mother’s side is 1695. I have a papal document of one of my ancestors framed on my wall. He was important enough to have some written records.
Isn’t everyone’s family old?
@@Mimicheyenne it’s just that not everybody knows hold old.
I can trace my ancestry back father to son to at least 1400 years ago and a millennium or so past that if you believe the holy texts. So can a lot of other people tbf but 500 years is nothing.
@@Parthian6 that’s cool.
@@tunedfox1698 my half sister, who is LDS, has our dad’s side of the family back to the 1400’s. Amazing how much info can be found when you know where to look.
I didn't really have anything like this when I took my DNA tests with my family. My parents were very honest with me and anything that other families would have as their skeletons in the closet that they either take to their grave or are eventually forced to tell their children, was told to me so I wasn't ever confused about family lineage. On top of this, my parents have been faithfully married for 20 years and have no history of cheating or having children with anyone else, so there was nothing that could have come from that. I will say the most surprising thing we got is that my dad's side has a tale that my dad's father was 1/64 Cherokee or something along those lines. When we got our 23andme test, my dad got a small amount of Indigenous American, and I actually got more than he did. So my mom must have some too, though we have no clue where that would be from. 23andme doesn't tell you what tribe you're from, mostly because there's not enough Native Americans on record having taken the tests to differentiate. So there's a possibility my dad's side could be something else, like Choctaw or Muskogee.
Not once do I think of blue or green eyes and red hair and think: oh that’s totally Native American
wtf 🤦🏻♂️
You’d be surprised. I have seen a few pale blue eyed blondes whose names are on tribal registries.
Not a horror story, but a beautiful story: my cousin took a test, and we found a half-brother I didn't know existed.
He's wonderful. I've discovered an entirely new family, with many nephews and grand-nephews.
Something I'm taking away from a couple of the stores is your heritage and culture doesn't really matter bc nobody really remembers where we come from or who we come from. Just remember it's your life so make it whatever you want it to be not what somebody tells you
4 years ago my mom found out she had a half brother no one (and i mean no one!) knew about that was actually the oldest out of all her siblings! He appeared as a sibling on her and another brothers 23 and me tests. Turns out it was the result of a fling when my Grandpa was in the army when he was around 18 (and before he got really religious and met my Grandma) and he had gotten restationed or something before the mom even knew she was pregnant and they were never able to get in contact. I think the person that was the most shocked about the whole thing was my Grandpa On the plus side, he's gay so I no longer have to languish as the one gay member of the family.
15:30 I get a kick out of people claiming to be 'Scotch.' As someone who is of 35% Scottish ancestry (we had an extensive family tree later confirmed by AncestryDNA), I wonder how much those Scotch people had to drink.
Not necessarily a horror story but I'm French and my father is deeply antisemitic. After doing a DNA test, I found out my paternal grandfather had a first wife, who must been Jewish, because they had two daughters, who had kids, and they're Jewish. My father being old, it's possible that the first wife died during the Holocaust. My father always hated his father and knowing now that a part of the family is Jewish is... Odd
After getting some sleep, it's in fact an horror story. My father is quite a POS
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My grandma always told everyone she was half Cherokee. Dark, jet black hair and tan skin... several years after she passed away, my sister, myself and my mom all did 23 and me....not a lick of Native American of any sort
same with my paternal great-grandmother, just Chickasaw. dunno where my mother got it in her head she was, though.
47:15 That's one of the features of 23andMe is that they tell you how much neanderthal you have in your DNA. Neanderthal and Humans had babies together back then. Yes they did, They did the tango. They got jiggy with it.
Homo Neanderthalis were human, just not the same species as Homo Sapiens. There were a lot of human species long ago.
The neandertal thing: homo sapiens effed a bunch of neandertals, so some of their dna persists in some people (mostly white europeans). Some dna tests look for certain genetic markers and they give you a rough percentage.
Since the Turks moved from Central Asia to Anatolia, they picked up a lot of Greek, and the occupation of Greece by the Ottoman Empire means there's quite a bit of Turk in a lot of Greeks as well
The population of Turkey is more Greek and Iranian ethnically than turk. True Turks live in like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Mongolia, far closer to the central/eastern asian steppes they originated from.
just like to point out that i have a buddy whose sister took a 23 and me and apparently they reached out and said that she had the most neanderthal dna that they'd ever found in anyones dna to that point. kinda checks out, bro is pretty neanderthal - like lmao
Not so fun fact in regards to sperm donors theres almost no regulation in regards to sperm donation and it's up to the clinics
Yea, as they are learning just now…..🤦♀️
Like men learning they have dozens, in one case hundreds of kids.
Yep. Dating peers will be stressful.😩
This is when some were promised only 2-3 kids max.
Oops.
Try explaining THAT to the wife and kids.
I think one man is suing, and his biological son (lawyer) is representing him. He has actually connected to some of his 1/2 siblings pretty well.
Suing clinic… not the half sibs😅.
He donated a few times and has over 50 kids.😮
Thank goodness they were at least second cousins. But yeah. That’s still incredibly awkward.
Ancestry hit my sister and I am with a we have a first cousin which we didn’t know about.. I have a sleazy uncle, who is named after his father Vincent. My sleazy uncle got a woman pregnant who didn’t tell him. She wasn’t exactly sure who was the father because it was between my uncle and another man, but she did tell her daughter the names of both of the men. After her mom died she used ancestry to connect with her biological father. Well, we connected and for some reason she’s dead set my grandfather was the one who impregnated her mom. DNA don’t lie, and if that was the case, it would not make us first cousins she would be my aunt, but that is not what ancestry came up with. It is really strange to me that this woman does not believe that my uncle who is the man who slept with her mom(my uncle remembers) but he’s not exactly someone you want to claim. So she decided, but my grandfather, our grandfather is her actual father…. My grandfather never cheated on my grandmother. He did not impregnate her mom because if that was the case, the DNA would come out different. She’s told her children that our grandfather is her dad. Which is totally confusing to the children because that is not the case. To be honest with you she’s turned me so far off that I really don’t care to get to know her. I found out that she did have a children taken from her at one point in your life because she was addicted to drugs and her children were with CPS for short for your time. I think this girl lost some fucking brain cells and she’s never going to get them back. She seems put totally normal, but then you start to talk to her and how she’s rejected, her actual biological father and reassigned my grandfather has her father, which just plainly pisses me off. I wanna throw the DNA results in her face and say what the duck does this mean? Are you really that’s ignorant and stupid but obviously the family doesn’t want me to push her away. And some ways I rather she never came into the picture. Things were better without her.
Will y'all put the title of the game that's being used for the background somewhere in the description? Some of them look super fun, but I don't know where to start when it comes to finding them.
Thanks for all the human narration, it's much appreciated.
Battleblock theater
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First I want to say none of what I'm about to say is me being mad or trying to start anything. Just an observation and information I'm sharing. 😊
Story #3:
Idk where the narrator was going with the comment after this. My understanding of the story was:
- OP didn't know much about family and did DNA test
- DNA came back with half sisters that are too old to be his "dad's" kids
- OP can't ask questions to bio dad as he is dead or mother as she is dead too.
- family doesn't know anything or want to ask questions and rock the boat with OPs other dad or that family.
So more than likely there was some kind of affair, SA, or many other reasons and OPs mom never said anything to anyone to take it to her grave to not hurt or anger the non-bio father. It's not beyond the realm of possibilities for this to have happened but it also isn't beyond the realm of chances of like the first story too. If it was false or BS then these companies would have been sued long ago. This isn't just some TikTok sale to scam this is very VERY important data.
I also know for a fact these are legit as it helped my friend find her sisters she was separated from when she was a baby. Their photos and so many other things she looked into lined up. (Adoption records etc)
You can hardly blame the pair from story 13. Like how were they supposed to know?
I think it's silly when people take a test and decide that their results are "boring," and that others make up "exotic" histories to cover their ignorance.
I say that and confess I'm sad that I don't have much more Neanderthal DNA because I'm very interested in them.
Otherwise, my DNA is pretty much what I thought--a near half Western and Eastern European but with a tiny amount of Middle Eastern, which I'm trying to figure out the origin of.
My family has had only one big DNA surprise, and this was one of my first cousins. Sadly, her biological dad died shortly before she found out. Based on some whispers, we may have another surprise, but a certain person would have to take a test. I dread it. That one cousin's discovery really shook her relationship with her mom. I don't feel we all have to go through this again. Maybe when my parents' generation are mostly gone.
I found out the man i grew up beliveing was my great grandpa wasnt my great grandpa
He was also my great aunts husband , my great grandma didnt have a moral compus
But we did find out we are related to him. He's a distant cousin and he has kids everywhere .
We're still in shock
My mom is 50/50 Irish and Norwegian, confirmed by my aunt dna test. I did a DNA test because my paternal grandpa always said he was Heinz 57. My grandma is 50% irish and shares gene's with her husband from the same man. Grandma is 12.5% and grandfather is 25%.
My results camr back German. I fell for the company that matches anucient genes. They got sued. The company indicated that Irish and Scandinavian people migrated trom sriund Austria 20 generations ago. Whatever, some day I will get retested.
I took a my ancestry test. Found a cousin who nobody knew that we had. She Is about 30years older than me and my uncle now has a daughter that he never knew about. Turns out that she was born when he was 19 and the mother never told anyone who the father was, not even her own parents
Idk, who it was but someone on my mom's side of the family took a DNA test, and apparently my family are descendants of Charlemagne. I personally think it's BS tho.
The family doctor thing was very common, particularly if the man was having fertility issues. Back in the 50s, the doctor would tell the husband that it's usually the woman's fault for infertility and send him home early to counsel the wife on treatment. He'd then tell the wife that her husband was shooting blanks and his manhood couldn't possilbly handle it, so they would artificially inseminate the wife and never tell the husband. Alternatively it's not unusual to mix foreign semen in with the intended father's semen if there's sperm mobility issues
No neanderthal DNA does show on 23andme, I have less then 2% but that's more than 74% of others in the system, my half sister has something like 14% more than others. I got a mix of markers from my parents but both carried a dandruff one to me, I find it all facinating to be honest.
My parents discovered that my mom’s family on her mom’s side is both extremely accurate and doesn’t include my dad’s great-great-grandfather who had worked the railroads and gone to Canada at the time the mystery “American railroad worker Mr. [my dad’s last name]” fathered my mother’s great-grandmother in Nova Scotia. Her dad’s side is a little less accurate and it turns out there’s barely any German on my dad’s side, despite his Scottish grandparents having an extremely German family name. And yet there are somehow people in this thread that had wayyyy more English than my dad (he has 50%). My mom also has *no* English (so whoever the very English lastname guy was, he probably had anglicized his name), but predictably lots of Scottish and is 1/4th Irish.
I might get a dna test, but probably wont learn much about ethnicity. The ones i may get are for medical stuff.
Fairly accurate as it linked me to dozens of relatives who are known.
My horror story is I met my half brother and he cut me off bc I said our dad was a bad person and then he randomly added me on Snapchat like a month ago lmao
Met my bio dad and then he ghosted me after 6 months 😂 bought me all kinds of stuff and then outta nowhere he ghosted me. I have a feeling it had to do with his wife who was extremely jealous of my mom. (We already had a suspicion this guy was my dad this just confirmed it).
My story is a bit different. I was doing DNA genealogy research and discovered that I'm not biologically related to either parent, now deceased, nor am I adopted. The hospital where my mom gave birth had a huge fire that destroyed records from the year that I was born. Haven't decided what, if anything, should be my next step.
As for accuracy regarding family members they go off of their own tests and census data
Who else came to the comments for the Neanderthal thing?
My sister was the first of us to take the Ancestry test. Discovered a much younger brother. Unfortunately, this was after my father passed, and he never knew. The guy looks just like my dad but refuses to have anything to do with us.
Stroy 6 but what happened to the woman who was accused
I have63/67% more Neanderthal DNA than the average person. So, yah, they can measure it.
Story 57 made me howl.
In my family, my great grandmother had 14 children. The 1 son that was the 'genetic anomaly' was so fair he spent most of his life passing as white. It wasn't until he managed to get a young woman pregnant that his cover was blown.
I haven't done a 23andMe test or anything like that but I have been tempted mostly to see if there is any validity to my story below.
Kind of similar to the second story, my father's mother's side was an aunt who was very big on tracing back their genealogy and basically had a giant painting that was also a living family tree that they had been working on for years and I was told it was a work of art.
Then suddenly one day that Aunt destroyed the canvas and threw it on the fire, started a new one and would vehemently insist that she could no longer find any further records and that this was the complete family tree as far as she could find.
This all happened before I was born, but my mother apparently got to see the work in progress before the Aunt destroyed the original; Much later in life when we were talking about how funny genetics work out and my mom shared the story of the family tree painting and told me what her two theories were about the sudden abrupt halt of the study.
1. Aunt discovered that somebody had married a non-caucasian individual and I was told that unfortunately this Aunt was ~that~ racist.
2. Aunt discovered that there were cases of persons being born to two closely related relatives and as a well-to-do lady she couldn't acknowledge incest in her own family regardless of how far back she had gotten.
I had 4 children by my husband and always told him that if any other woman had his child, the child was mine because I was his wife.
dude we dont need an hour long discussion on what you think about the accuracy of dna tests, bring back the old narrator
3 quick points : 1) having you DNA data in legal databases can help them find you if you are a criminal, but far more importantly, it can help them find you if you are a victim and facial recognition is impossible ! 2) It is heartwarming to hear of those who uncovered hidden cultural origins - sad they were hidden - now grasp the cultural origins and be proud of them to honour those who felt there was a good reason to hide them, becasue there just possibly was at the time - and connect with those relatives, they are parts of the same roots you are.
3) whilst you get 50% DNA from each of your 'parents', and they get 50% from each of your granparents, the amount passed on from one inheritance to the next must add up to 50%, but is not necessarily 25/25, it could be 5/45 or 1 and 49. so you might get from 4 grandparents 1/49/25/25 ratio of DNA. and some genes are dominant, some recessive, so you might look like the 1% grandparent !
Hey, did you know you can donate your DNA to help solve crimes, including identifying unknown bodies? Look up charities where you can do that, and let’s solve some mysteries!
That man who died on that Australian beach got identified recently! Turns out he was more or less an asshole in life and that's why it took so long to find any family.
cause of how many confirmed illegitimate children English nobility had almost 1000 years ago, its to the point of if you have European heritage your probably related
Story 13 maybe she found out and that's why she left him?
I'm guessing Story 6 is talking about Cyprus 🇨🇾
I have been so suspicious of my mom for 30 some years, I need to get a test done to curtail my suspicions once and for all.
Found out my very white self is not the German man's kid.... I'm the black Korean kid...... My bio mother had never explained
To answer the narrator's question. They are quite accurate. For what they say.
Telling direct parentage, very accurate.
Telling general percentages of origin, also very accurate.
On the other hand, there are a lot of ways to share single digit percentages of DNA. Half siblings, cousins and other such things are pretty easy to confuse.
For example, I cannot see how they would identify that the father is also the grandfather if both parents are dead. You would need samples, add people who know that sort of secret are the least likely to take these sorts of tests
2:06 they’re incredibly accurate and actually update with more data. For example initially my results were 49% Filipino and a few years ago they were able to break it down to locations and we had no idea we had family from Visayay/ Mindanao region as we only knew Northern Luzon. We asked grandma and she’s like “oh yeh your Grandpas moms side is from
there”
Again, this narrators opinions are either juvenilely superficial to just plain conspiracitory.
Story 44: Sort of why I did my ancestory cus my mom thought she was spicy mayo and like 1/16 native, possibly Choctaw. We even grew up going to pow wows and the house was like a museum but no specific tribe just the decor….no mom you’re like white white 😂
47:15 This narrator is just saying whatever without checking and it’s annoying. Yes there are some with Neanderthal DNA, about 4-6% of the population today is estimated to have enough testable genes.
79. Your dna is not in the database… also if my dna popped me up as a close relative to a crime involving DNA I.e SA or murder- Good.
Uhhh, story 27 sounds suspiciously like my father. Half Filipino half Irish, was in the military, had multiple children with different women...
oh my god battleblocks theater
Story 23: Neanderthal DNA does show up on 23 & me. I have a higher than average percentage.
I really want a dna test bc im almost certain theres some wild shit on my dads side, im already aware of the dumpster fire of mum's side (criminals, arsonists, possible murderers, cousins being raised by older cousins, at least six kids per cousin, abusers, etc) but i really wanna know if my cheating bastard of a father had any other kids, bc i wouldnt put it past him
I always wondered how many of these stories are real 🤔
I love reading and listening to them but sometimes i wish I knew how to tell if it's fake
I found out I had a half brother I didn't know I had so we did another DNA site 23 and me and I included both my children and got the same results. He looks like my father, who's deceased.
The guy who wanted his sisters dad to be his dad. If he brings you up, teaches you the world and loves you: that's your dad.
"How can these DNA tests go back several generations???" is a question I've often heard and it indicates 1) a poor listener/reader and/or 2) a person who is not grasping the very basic stuff about DNA.
Family took a 23&me and we found out we are related to Lizzie Borden
“You’re Scottish, mate” 😂😂😂
Mine said in my ancestry that I'm somehow related to Marie Antoinette. It was 23andme that said it.
I'm like an extremely distant relation to the royal family on my dad's maternal side. someone didn't have any surviving children with his wife, but three bastards (2 girls and a boy) that lived. The boy, who I guess is the relation, was the only one who didn't inherit anything. Go figure. Maternal grandfather's side had christening records going back to I think about 1330. There is a supposed marriage to a romanian baroness way back.
My rather prudish grandparents generation had at least 12 secret kids they adopted out who dna tested (or their kids did) to try to connect with bio family... this is in addition to the two we knew about. I realize they had bigger families back then but this is basically 1 in 3 odds of a person adopting out their kid. After all the flack I got for keeping my kid when I got pregnant at 18, it was quite the surprise. It does explain why so many relatives travelled the world for a year before settling down.
My family and I took DNA tests through ancestry. We found out we have a long-lost aunt on my moms side. My mom and uncle denied her being their little sister because they never saw my grandma go through another pregnancy. She was adopted and knew nothing about us ornher original family. My sisters and aunt decided to meet her in person. I got along really well with her, and everyone said I looked like this long-lost aunt. I even told her to get a VR so we could play games together. It got strange when she started to treat my family like they were terrible people and as if she was superior. She talked crap about everyone. She sent me weird emojis like 😶🌫️ and 🙃 during our chats. She was sus. We all started blocking her. She went from long-lost to long-gone in less than a year.
Anyone else poor enough to know they aren't adopted? 😂
the accuracy really depends on how much they get used. the results become more accurate and specific, the more people who use them. They have used these things to solve cold cases on a few occasions, using extended relatives. (Golden State Killer I think is one of them, and the mystery guy in Australia's identity was found)
One line of my family actually kept all their records and I got as far as the 1330s, supposedly. Lots of knights. one guy supposedly married a romanian baroness.
On my dad's side, I discovered the statistic improbability that one of my friends was a distant cousin through a family in OH (he was adopted by someone on his mother's side in WV IIRC, I'm from TN). Got to see him for the first time, and he showed me his paternal grandmother. She looks IDENTICAL to my dad. His mother's side has some *strong* genes. Makes me so glad that my maternal side all look like they sprang from the Little Debbie mascot (my granny was a dead ringer, it was wild). 😬
My mom through some research found a lot of our female ancestors were locked up for hysteria/madness. Which makes sense a fare amount of women on my grandmother's side of the family have mental health issues. Including all her daughters and her one granddaughter (me). That was fun to find out.
Story 3: the answer is not very at all. 23 and Me is better than most, but when they start listing specific countries, theyre just guessing.
Genetically you cannot tell the difference between a Swedish person and a Norwegian person. Frankly, its hard to geneticallly differntiate the French from the English.
They can easily tell if youre Scandinavian, Anglo Saxxon, or a different Germanic tribe.
But theyre cant tell if youre from Germany versus Austria. Thats simply not how genetics work. Your genes are not dictated by country, and most countries you share a border with are going to be nearly genetically identical.
My first cousin and I both took a DNA test and we both found out she has a half sister/ I have a cousin that neither of us knew about. Unfortunately, all the parents are dead and my cousin and I were filling her in about her family and the family health history. She knew her dad (my uncle) all her life because he was a friend of her parents. Then she finds out my uncle is her dad. Her daughter looks very similar to me.
Unrelated but I highly appreciate the Battleblock Theater footage in the bg.
OH HI UNDERSPARKED!
I did not heet her! I did NOT!
fun fact: my stepdad and my aunt are cousins, we didnt know this till like 4 years ago but im *technically* cousins (im pretty sure thats what itd be) with my stepdad but its only through my uncle's marriage
we found out after going to an RC car event my uncle was hosting and my stepdad saw a pic of one of his uncles and then they found out my aunt and my stepdad are both are from the same family
Not Relevant but I'm so Sad tho 😭😭
When I was 20 (30 years ago), we had a sister find us. She found her birth mother first, and then the birth mother found my dad and my uncle. My dad explained to us that either we had a sister or a cousin, and they weren't sure because when they were all teenagers, they took the neighbor girl out for some fun, and boom! There was a baby. But the neighbor girl blamed it on her boss, and they didn't know it was their baby. Back then genetic testing was very, very new, so my dad and uncle had to go to the biggest, best known hospital system in the U.S. to get tested, and we found out she was our sister, not our cousin. Two years later my dad died of a massive heart attack. After about 7 years my half sister got married, and her half sister went to live with her and her husband, as her home life was unstable. My half sister ended up developing aggressive multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed for a number of years. Unfortunately, she also developed malignant melanoma and died at the age of 47. A few months after she died, it was revealed to the rest of the family that her husband became involved with the younger half sister that he and my half sister had taken in (who was considerably younger, but now of legal age - he was about 25 years her senior) and had gotten her pregnant. I'm no longer in contact with him or the half sister. I did find out in the course of a lot of DNA testing because of rare diseases that I have developed in the last 15 years that malignant melanoma runs in my family - our paternal grandfather also had a terminal case. My brother refuses to do any DNA testing in case any other siblings are out there, because he is the only carrier of our dad's DNA that we know of. Our uncle has also passed away.
47:26 the neanderthal thing isn't a joke. Most europeans have some neanderthal DNA because homo sapiens figured that one way to take over the territory was to populate it then hoard all the resources until the neanderthals could no longer support themselves and died/moved away then died. My bio teacher from a couple years ago showed my class his 23andme profile, and he had something like 2.5% neanderthal DNA, which is considered to be A LOT. it seems to be more common in northern European heritage (British isles, Scandinavian countries) according to my teacher, because the neanderthals are believed to have moved north to escape the homo sapiens.
2ed Cousins is actually the level of genetic similarly between most married couples. Though they're not usually actual family, it's the same level of genetic similarly. We like people who are different, but not too different.
Marrying your first cousin doubles your chance of having a child with a birth defect, but the chances are so low between strangers that doubling it doesn't really increase it that much.
This is, of course, provided that you have no other consanguinity in your direct family line, as each generation of consanguinity increases your chances of defect exponentially, and it doesn't take many generations to produce offspring that can't reproduce at all.
Still worthy of a bleach bath.
Seriously. 8 billion people and we can’t resist tuning the family tree into a freaking spoon!🤦♀️.
Close relatives have a greater likelihood of having offspring with genetic and mental problems.
Ask the Egyptians, the Hasburgs, European royalty, Hawaiian Royalty (yep), and certain states.
Yea. In Iceland almost everyone has had a DNA test and public app to check if their date could be a closely related.
Wow, the moment when the guy found out his dad wasn't his biological father must have been such a gut-wrenching shock. Imagine thinking you know your family and then having that kind of bombshell dropped on you. It’s like a plot twist straight out of a drama! Has anyone else had a surprising revelation from a DNA test?
never did a 23andme, my dad is very autistic and did deep research about his family tree. my father’s paternal side immigrated to america around 1920ish from the czech republic (bohemia at the time) and met in my home state. my grandpa didn’t learn how to speak english until he was 6 and had to stay in a hospital for a month. my grandpa and his sister died being the last people on that side of the family who could speak czech. my father’s maternal side came over from ireland and great britain. three relatives were active in the revolutionary war, 2 medical one a solider all for the north. my great great great (i think that’s the right amount of greats) grandfather was in sherman’s march to the sea and witnessed lincoln’s four scores and 7 years ago speech. he said sherman’s march to the sea was so bloody and unnecessary but it did end the war. my great uncle was told this by my great great grandma as the one who fought in the war told all these stories to his kids. all i know about my maternal side is that we are very german 😭
3:55 Cyprus
There are some really implausible stories here.
I love falling asleep to these videos man
The real horror story is that most of these companies don't make most of their money from selling the tests themselves, but rather selling people's data on to insurance companies so they can see who's predisposed to various illnesses.