That was the first good news I gave to my parents. ‘Your parents and grandparents are who you thought they were’. Followed by, ‘oh by the way you both appear to have several matches in the same family, and so do your parents!’ Rofl
Found my paternal grandmother's maiden name that way. Someone had built a family tree very far back, so I had to rely on that where an ancestor migrated from Scotland to Australia then is on all records as ten years older than in Scotland. A Scotland relative with the same tree matched DNA giving proof to the tree.
This year DNA provided me with 1 halfniece and one half sister ! . IN 2015 i tested at FTDNA in 2018 at AncestryDNA I uploaded my DNA to MHDNA and GEDmatch and tested myself at 23andMe in 2019.
True. I have one that has one Loammi Baldwin, born in 1745, who was a Lt. Colonel during the Revolutionary War and another who was born in 1773, so the younger one was too young to fight in it; he was three years old.
Actually, _no_ family tree is or ever can be complete, however accurate it may be. There will always be dead ends where the parents will never be known.
So very true! Records of births, baptisms, marriages, emigration, and dozens of other types of records were done by mere humans -- so all manner of careless errors can present themselves. Murphy's Law is a factor in any human endeavor -- including record keeping.
as someone who is adopted, I am glad others did the dna tests. it has helped me it out. found out who both parents are. found a half sister through the dna test. (and a half brother who hasnt done the dna test).
My ex-boss told me her tree was complete...I think I rolled my eyes at her....I've been working on my tree for 20+ years. Took the AncestryDNA test 3 months ago and last week I finally got a match, which has given me names for my paternal grandmother's parents!
Also, even if you don’t expect to, even if you come in knowing a lot, it is quite possible for you to find something new anyway! I have an extensive tree (thanks to dna revealing my adoptive side’s tree!), and I still found relatives I’d never known when I went through my matches. It connected me with family we hadn’t talked to in so long we no longer knew they existed; people whose lines we hadn’t payed attention to, or who didn’t have trees online that connected them to ours. And absolutely, people I matched with are able to learn about bio family they’d never have known about if I hadn’t tested. You might be surprised.
We actually have several "new" cousins simply because of DNA testing. Without it they possibly never would have found us and we never would have known about them.
@@sundownsigns In two of our families the fathers never even knew they had any other sons. Two things I would say about these situations that somebody needs to be prepared for these possibilities: 1) Not everyone in the family is going to just accept you at first AND 2) All families have disputes and likely you will get caught up in those! So be prepared. BUT, it is also likely that many more in the family will be very accepting and excited that you are part of the family AND be good people to know all around. In other words you will be a part of your real family and the good and the bad that comes with that will be a part of your life.
@@whychromosomesmusic5766 so true and I was surprised when they started contacting me actually wanting to know who did what. .lol I'm just thrilled to know why I felt so out of place and the black sheep and I did inquire FREQUENTLY and always got the oh you look like your great grandmother or some other deception but to see a photo of my birth mother I finally know who I look like and it when meeting the siblings it shocked them as well. I wasnt a black sheep I was in the wrong dang barn altogether;)
@@tracylynn1461 In our cases one of them the relatives took DNA tests to prove Native American ancestry which they got the opposite result there but the long lost son found his aunts' and first cousins' DNA through that (or a detective doing the work for him found them) and the rest is now history. The other one -- his daughter took the Ancestry DNA test and I matched her (along with lots of other family) as close as my mom's cousins. And trying to figure out who she was and finally narrowing it down -- which that is another tip I could give in trying to figure out HOW you match somebody DNA wise. First are your shared matches on your paternal or maternal side? Then which grandparent's side? And etc on back. And using that process we finally narrowed down most likely what side of our family she was related to and then looking online in modern phone and address directories to figure out more and eventually figuring out who her father (the long lost son) was, etc. Glad to hear you found your family. One of the young men hosted a wedding of his new family. The young woman above had a baby and shared the joy of that moment with her grandfather (my uncle) and others in her new found family.
@@whychromosomesmusic5766 yeah I stumbled upon the fact when I decided one day to google my name and found an obituary of my dead sister and I was listed as a sibling and I was all hmm. She had a sister with my name musta married a man with the sam last name as mine that's coincidence and kinda just forgot about it.. then went to try to get a birth record for the millionth time in 25 years and I told the lady the woman at the DHS says maybe there was a typo on my BC and ask yall to try finding the mistake and she took minutes and said well tracy Lynn born your bday same hospital but last name and parents dont match so I can not say anything more and shouldnt have told you that but I know I've seen you the past 10 years regularly, still didnt think it was connected until I found a photo of the sister and said well weird we kinda look a bit similar but I dont have a sister.. lol then 6 months later, a girl I hadnt talked to in 20 years makes a fb post about if you knew someone was adopted and their family was all deceased would you tell them or not, and tho I had never even liked her post in 10 years of FB friendship I SAID YES what if they are all alone like I am and they have family looking for them.. and pating the mesenger goes off and the words ITS YOU!! She had known since we were 10 and overheard our parents talking about it, she was adopted by her grandparents, and they made her swear to NEVER say a word to me or something bad may happen to me and she promised her mother she wouldnt and she didnt til both our mothers did.. now I know why we stopped being friends she didnt want to keep secrets.. I will never understand how my mother could bold face lie my entire life and even about labor and delivery and who I looked like and why I looked opposite of the few family members there were. Grandparents and great uncles aunts who were all gone by the time I was 12.. I may have never done somethings had I known I come from addiction prone family, may have had my records to go to college or travel or even have a real job.. my only birth record was FORGED and after it was lost it was gone forever.. but I have to believe that she had reasons to keep it hush hush when I was little but when I got pregnant she shoulda told me the truth or at least before she passed away.. but hey at least I have a story now and not just the only child of two only children...and I finally have a HUGE family;)
I am asking this question right now.. Should I do a DNA test.. or just find someone to help with my genealogy, but I feel to find someone to help me .. they may be good at it and have resources and may not.. so then I don't know if it's worth the money. ira not easy.. i appercaite your channel and all your hard work
You should do both, not or. Your success with DNA based genealogy will depend on the quality of your paper trail genealogy. And if you happen to be in a region where few people have tested or are allowed to test, you won't find much success with DNA tests. BUT, I might be wrong and you will hit a gold mine. Our advice is that DNA tests create a record. Make the record. Then use it in conjunction with your family tree.
I don't have a dna test but I still know the most about my family history even more then my oldest relatives they come to me for answers and im only 36
I was so hesitant to spit but then find out I'm adopted and that outweighed any fears.. I now know I have 9 Gene's related directly to cannabis tho not sure if that means I'm part plant or the ancestors were hippies;) and lots of other fun stuff.. to go from only child and grandchild with no aunts uncles or cousins to over 70 thousand dna relatives just on ancestry is dream come true really!!!
I've done regular research for over 30 years and apart from 2 2 x great grandparents father's being unknown, with no clue as to who they are I have no real mysteries. Most lines are back to 1750s at least. DNA research was my next task .. which of my ancestors gave me my DNA. So, now I am working at the chromosome level. It has, however, confirmed all of my research for the line in question, And confirmed a theory of a 2 x great grandfather who left his family had another family abroad.
Also interesting to find these situations happened in the past. We have this on my direct paternal and direct maternal side. My actual paternal surname SHOULD be CHANDLER not JERNIGAN. Proven all the way up to Big Y (results just in yesterday). But my mother's father had the surname VALERIO. Both of his parents from Italy. HIS father was born with the surname VALERIANO. But HIS father was born in the City of Torino, Italy in 1825 with the name Valeriano GUGLIELMINO. Records show his parents gave him up only days after he was born. He had several different foster families. Linking the documents I have now proven they were the same person and found our direct maternal surname was GUGLIELMINO and may have even been Sicilian not Piemontese at all. So on both sides I have the wrong name! lol
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I think it is very likely that when I saw my great-great grandfather's birth record just this year I was looking at something he never even knew existed. Interesting because he knew that 18 April (diciotto aprile) was his birthday. That date is in both the Pubblicazioni of his marriage to my great-great grandmother and in the Allegati that accompanied it. They just had the year wrong. He also knew he was born in the City of Torino. That is in both documents. The Allegati also mentioned some dates concerning his being placed with certain foster families. But a farm laborer in Prascorsano in the 1860s would neither have the resources nor the time to go to the big city to find his birth record. Sometime around 1881 he moved his family to America. Eventually changed his name (again) from Guglielmo Valeriano to William Valerio and the rest is our family history.
Okay - not someone big into genealogy here - how can one say their family tree is complete? Unless your family tree includes all 108 billion people that have ever walked this earth, it isn't complete lol. Is there a certain treshold for 'complete' or what? 'oh, I managed to go back 500 years and to cousins a gadzillion times removed - complete!' or 'I went back to the 1000's - complete!' A family tree can never be complete, someone's ancestors didn't just appear out of thin air in the middle ages, there just aren't enough records and information to dig to earlier periods and to spread out to even further cousins. That there aren't any more records doesn't make it 'complete'.
For someone not big into genealogy, you know more than the folks who say their family tree is complete. Yep. A tree is never complete so what someone means by "complete' will vary from person to person.
Hate I missed the live show but if you are IVF conceived you would have DNA to the egg and sperm donor and the woman who carried you as well? If the egg was not from the woman carrying the child?? Anyone know??
@@davidabad469 wow that is fascinating how can it not ???being so closely connected to the woman its growing inside of how does her body then not see it as a threat say like RH factor works....was so not the answer I expected at all;) DNA continues to amaze and astonish me everyday!! (and not really expecting you to know or answer ;) )
Even when a woman carries her own baby, she is still carrying a being in her body that has foreign DNA, as only half of the baby's DNA is her own. How and why the mother's immune system doesn't destroy the baby is a complicated question. Here's some research from 2012 on the subject: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120607142244.htm#:~:text=The%20researchers%20discovered%20that%20embryo,cannot%20harm%20the%20developing%20fetus.
@@davidabad469 yes thank you and I understand half DNA foreign but in natural reproduction half the DNA comes from the mother so how something that has zero genetic material shared with the host for lack of better terminology is definately worth spending hours of looking up big words to try and make sense of this amazing fact!! I've heard of 3 strand DNA back in 2012 and was just curious if that could be the reason.. thanks for your help.. I'm off to see the wizard!! I💓DNA!!
There is some recent medical advancement that has the nucleus of a fertilized egg being implanted in a third carrier cell. In this case, only the mitochondrial DNA will be from the carrier.
My family tree is only flawless to the 1500s........no. I dont have many ancestors from the 1400's since i mostly decend from farmers and they were 90 % of the total popultion. the recrutement to other classes like the towns folk and the clergy came from the farmers of course. we had a saying in the 1700's "When Adam dug and Eve spun (spann), who were then a nobleman"
Well I spent 20 years on mine only to find out at 45 I was adopted and had to start all over.. DNA is amazing!!!
Wow! 😯
You're not alone. It seems like your handling this well.
That was the first good news I gave to my parents. ‘Your parents and grandparents are who you thought they were’. Followed by, ‘oh by the way you both appear to have several matches in the same family, and so do your parents!’ Rofl
I have known since I was young that I was adopted. I am working on 2 trees, one tree for my adoptive family, one tree for my DNA tree.
Found my paternal grandmother's maiden name that way. Someone had built a family tree very far back, so I had to rely on that where an ancestor migrated from Scotland to Australia then is on all records as ten years older than in Scotland. A Scotland relative with the same tree matched DNA giving proof to the tree.
That's awesome!
This year DNA provided me with 1 halfniece and one half sister ! .
IN 2015 i tested at FTDNA in 2018 at AncestryDNA I uploaded my DNA to MHDNA and GEDmatch and tested myself at 23andMe in 2019.
That's super exciting!
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics : Yes ;)
Noone's tree is that complete and accurate. And sometimes it's complete but not accurate.
True. I have one that has one Loammi Baldwin, born in 1745, who was a Lt. Colonel during the Revolutionary War and another who was born in 1773, so the younger one was too young to fight in it; he was three years old.
Actually, _no_ family tree is or ever can be complete, however accurate it may be. There will always be dead ends where the parents will never be known.
Trees have inaccuracies to be sure.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics True.
So very true! Records of births, baptisms, marriages, emigration, and dozens of other types of records were done by mere humans -- so all manner of careless errors can present themselves. Murphy's Law is a factor in any human endeavor -- including record keeping.
as someone who is adopted, I am glad others did the dna tests. it has helped me it out. found out who both parents are. found a half sister through the dna test. (and a half brother who hasnt done the dna test).
Hooray! I'm glad DNA has been helpful for you in your search.
My ex-boss told me her tree was complete...I think I rolled my eyes at her....I've been working on my tree for 20+ years. Took the AncestryDNA test 3 months ago and last week I finally got a match, which has given me names for my paternal grandmother's parents!
Yep... we roll our eyes as well. Congrats on the success!!
Also, even if you don’t expect to, even if you come in knowing a lot, it is quite possible for you to find something new anyway! I have an extensive tree (thanks to dna revealing my adoptive side’s tree!), and I still found relatives I’d never known when I went through my matches. It connected me with family we hadn’t talked to in so long we no longer knew they existed; people whose lines we hadn’t payed attention to, or who didn’t have trees online that connected them to ours. And absolutely, people I matched with are able to learn about bio family they’d never have known about if I hadn’t tested. You might be surprised.
Some surprises are good. Others, not so much. But DNA testing creates a record. Don't we all love having more records than less?
We actually have several "new" cousins simply because of DNA testing. Without it they possibly never would have found us and we never would have known about them.
I've come up with two NEW cousins in the past five years as a result of DNA testing. Interesting family surprises.
@@sundownsigns In two of our families the fathers never even knew they had any other sons. Two things I would say about these situations that somebody needs to be prepared for these possibilities: 1) Not everyone in the family is going to just accept you at first AND 2) All families have disputes and likely you will get caught up in those! So be prepared. BUT, it is also likely that many more in the family will be very accepting and excited that you are part of the family AND be good people to know all around. In other words you will be a part of your real family and the good and the bad that comes with that will be a part of your life.
@@whychromosomesmusic5766 so true and I was surprised when they started contacting me actually wanting to know who did what. .lol I'm just thrilled to know why I felt so out of place and the black sheep and I did inquire FREQUENTLY and always got the oh you look like your great grandmother or some other deception but to see a photo of my birth mother I finally know who I look like and it when meeting the siblings it shocked them as well. I wasnt a black sheep I was in the wrong dang barn altogether;)
@@tracylynn1461 In our cases one of them the relatives took DNA tests to prove Native American ancestry which they got the opposite result there but the long lost son found his aunts' and first cousins' DNA through that (or a detective doing the work for him found them) and the rest is now history.
The other one -- his daughter took the Ancestry DNA test and I matched her (along with lots of other family) as close as my mom's cousins. And trying to figure out who she was and finally narrowing it down -- which that is another tip I could give in trying to figure out HOW you match somebody DNA wise. First are your shared matches on your paternal or maternal side? Then which grandparent's side? And etc on back. And using that process we finally narrowed down most likely what side of our family she was related to and then looking online in modern phone and address directories to figure out more and eventually figuring out who her father (the long lost son) was, etc.
Glad to hear you found your family. One of the young men hosted a wedding of his new family. The young woman above had a baby and shared the joy of that moment with her grandfather (my uncle) and others in her new found family.
@@whychromosomesmusic5766 yeah I stumbled upon the fact when I decided one day to google my name and found an obituary of my dead sister and I was listed as a sibling and I was all hmm. She had a sister with my name musta married a man with the sam last name as mine that's coincidence and kinda just forgot about it.. then went to try to get a birth record for the millionth time in 25 years and I told the lady the woman at the DHS says maybe there was a typo on my BC and ask yall to try finding the mistake and she took minutes and said well tracy Lynn born your bday same hospital but last name and parents dont match so I can not say anything more and shouldnt have told you that but I know I've seen you the past 10 years regularly, still didnt think it was connected until I found a photo of the sister and said well weird we kinda look a bit similar but I dont have a sister.. lol then 6 months later, a girl I hadnt talked to in 20 years makes a fb post about if you knew someone was adopted and their family was all deceased would you tell them or not, and tho I had never even liked her post in 10 years of FB friendship I SAID YES what if they are all alone like I am and they have family looking for them.. and pating the mesenger goes off and the words ITS YOU!! She had known since we were 10 and overheard our parents talking about it, she was adopted by her grandparents, and they made her swear to NEVER say a word to me or something bad may happen to me and she promised her mother she wouldnt and she didnt til both our mothers did.. now I know why we stopped being friends she didnt want to keep secrets.. I will never understand how my mother could bold face lie my entire life and even about labor and delivery and who I looked like and why I looked opposite of the few family members there were. Grandparents and great uncles aunts who were all gone by the time I was 12.. I may have never done somethings had I known I come from addiction prone family, may have had my records to go to college or travel or even have a real job.. my only birth record was FORGED and after it was lost it was gone forever.. but I have to believe that she had reasons to keep it hush hush when I was little but when I got pregnant she shoulda told me the truth or at least before she passed away.. but hey at least I have a story now and not just the only child of two only children...and I finally have a HUGE family;)
That was one of your best videos
Thanks so much
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics you're welcome
I am asking this question right now.. Should I do a DNA test.. or just find someone to help with my genealogy, but I feel to find someone to help me .. they may be good at it and have resources and may not.. so then I don't know if it's worth the money. ira not easy.. i appercaite your channel and all your hard work
You should do both, not or. Your success with DNA based genealogy will depend on the quality of your paper trail genealogy. And if you happen to be in a region where few people have tested or are allowed to test, you won't find much success with DNA tests. BUT, I might be wrong and you will hit a gold mine.
Our advice is that DNA tests create a record. Make the record. Then use it in conjunction with your family tree.
I don't have a dna test but I still know the most about my family history even more then my oldest relatives they come to me for answers and im only 36
I was so hesitant to spit but then find out I'm adopted and that outweighed any fears.. I now know I have 9 Gene's related directly to cannabis tho not sure if that means I'm part plant or the ancestors were hippies;) and lots of other fun stuff.. to go from only child and grandchild with no aunts uncles or cousins to over 70 thousand dna relatives just on ancestry is dream come true really!!!
We're in the same boat. A little older, but we're are the ones people ask for details on the family tree.
"I gotta sneeze!" LOL!!! Cute.❤
We love adding bloopers at the end. Thanks for watching the whole thing.
I've done regular research for over 30 years and apart from 2 2 x great grandparents father's being unknown, with no clue as to who they are I have no real mysteries. Most lines are back to 1750s at least. DNA research was my next task .. which of my ancestors gave me my DNA. So, now I am working at the chromosome level. It has, however, confirmed all of my research for the line in question, And confirmed a theory of a 2 x great grandfather who left his family had another family abroad.
That's a great way to research - paper trail then DNA.
I would also add that it gives you the percentages of what nationalities you are (eg. x% English, y% French, etc.)
I REALLY needed this video! THANK YOU!
You're so welcome!
I confirmed all the research I had done & located my paternal grandfather who had been a mystery
This is one of the great things that DNA can do.
Also interesting to find these situations happened in the past. We have this on my direct paternal and direct maternal side. My actual paternal surname SHOULD be CHANDLER not JERNIGAN. Proven all the way up to Big Y (results just in yesterday). But my mother's father had the surname VALERIO. Both of his parents from Italy. HIS father was born with the surname VALERIANO. But HIS father was born in the City of Torino, Italy in 1825 with the name Valeriano GUGLIELMINO. Records show his parents gave him up only days after he was born. He had several different foster families. Linking the documents I have now proven they were the same person and found our direct maternal surname was GUGLIELMINO and may have even been Sicilian not Piemontese at all. So on both sides I have the wrong name! lol
Wow!
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I think it is very likely that when I saw my great-great grandfather's birth record just this year I was looking at something he never even knew existed. Interesting because he knew that 18 April (diciotto aprile) was his birthday. That date is in both the Pubblicazioni of his marriage to my great-great grandmother and in the Allegati that accompanied it. They just had the year wrong. He also knew he was born in the City of Torino. That is in both documents. The Allegati also mentioned some dates concerning his being placed with certain foster families. But a farm laborer in Prascorsano in the 1860s would neither have the resources nor the time to go to the big city to find his birth record. Sometime around 1881 he moved his family to America. Eventually changed his name (again) from Guglielmo Valeriano to William Valerio and the rest is our family history.
Okay - not someone big into genealogy here - how can one say their family tree is complete? Unless your family tree includes all 108 billion people that have ever walked this earth, it isn't complete lol. Is there a certain treshold for 'complete' or what? 'oh, I managed to go back 500 years and to cousins a gadzillion times removed - complete!' or 'I went back to the 1000's - complete!' A family tree can never be complete, someone's ancestors didn't just appear out of thin air in the middle ages, there just aren't enough records and information to dig to earlier periods and to spread out to even further cousins. That there aren't any more records doesn't make it 'complete'.
For someone not big into genealogy, you know more than the folks who say their family tree is complete. Yep. A tree is never complete so what someone means by "complete' will vary from person to person.
If they think it is 100% complete they are living in a fantasy world!!
Does laughing and agreeing make me a bad person?
Hate I missed the live show but if you are IVF conceived you would have DNA to the egg and sperm donor and the woman who carried you as well? If the egg was not from the woman carrying the child?? Anyone know??
No, the baby will not receive any DNA from the carrier.
@@davidabad469 wow that is fascinating how can it not ???being so closely connected to the woman its growing inside of how does her body then not see it as a threat say like RH factor works....was so not the answer I expected at all;) DNA continues to amaze and astonish me everyday!! (and not really expecting you to know or answer ;) )
Even when a woman carries her own baby, she is still carrying a being in her body that has foreign DNA, as only half of the baby's DNA is her own. How and why the mother's immune system doesn't destroy the baby is a complicated question. Here's some research from 2012 on the subject: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120607142244.htm#:~:text=The%20researchers%20discovered%20that%20embryo,cannot%20harm%20the%20developing%20fetus.
@@davidabad469 yes thank you and I understand half DNA foreign but in natural reproduction half the DNA comes from the mother so how something that has zero genetic material shared with the host for lack of better terminology is definately worth spending hours of looking up big words to try and make sense of this amazing fact!! I've heard of 3 strand DNA back in 2012 and was just curious if that could be the reason.. thanks for your help.. I'm off to see the wizard!! I💓DNA!!
There is some recent medical advancement that has the nucleus of a fertilized egg being implanted in a third carrier cell. In this case, only the mitochondrial DNA will be from the carrier.
I have my tree traced back 52 generations and have my DNA on ancestry lol
Awesome. Then you are not a tree to which others can compare their DNA and trees to discover their heritage. Thank you.
My family tree is only flawless to the 1500s........no. I dont have many ancestors from the 1400's since i mostly decend from farmers and they were 90 % of the total popultion. the recrutement to other classes like the towns folk and the clergy came from the farmers of course. we had a saying in the 1700's "When Adam dug and Eve spun (spann), who were then a nobleman"
Well that's a phrase I've never heard before.